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Hello new students, and welcome to the University of Northern Iowa! We the staff of the Northern Iowan, UNI’s student-produced newspaper, have compiled this guide to help you with your transition to our university. We hope you will find it useful and consult it often; most of all, we hope it makes you excited to embrace all the different opportunities and challenges you will encounter at UNI. To welcome you to campus, you can find letters from your student leaders, our university’s president, and the deans of UNI’s four colleges below and on page 4. Northern Iowan Editorial Staff

Hello new Panthers! On behalf of the Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG), we would like to give you an official University of Northern Iowa Panther welcome. We are very excited for you to begin your UNI experience! Your time here at UNI will be full of growth, exploration and inspiration. You will meet amazing people, stretch your creative abilities, expand your academic horizons and do more than you ever thought was possible. You will make the memories of lifetime, and in the meantime, discover your passion! The time you spend on this campus will serve you into the future, so be sure to take advantage of all the opportunities UNI has to offer. There is so much more to being a Panther than attending class. You can join a student organization, show your Panther pride at an athletic event, go to a show at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center or Strayer-Wood Theatre, or attend a guest lecture. You can

also participate in the UNI Traditions Challenge, daydream under the stars at the planetarium or relax with a Chats coffee in Maucker Union. NISG is the governing body that represents all UNI students. We are here to help make your experience at UNI all it is meant to be. The NISG executive branch offers students like you an outlet to make their voices heard. Similarly, the NISG senate can help you start a student organization and then provide funding for your organization to host events and speakers. Ultimately, NISG’s goal is to serve you, so visit our office next to the Student Involvement and Activities Center in the upper level of Maucker Union. Talk to us. Give us your ideas and suggestions. We would love to hear from and meet you! The NISG senate meets every Wednesday night in the University Room of the Macuker, so complete a UNI Traditions Challenge and attend a meeting. Also, be sure to

visit our website at www.uni.edu/nisg for updates and to connect with us. We hope you enjoy every second of your experience at UNI and wish you luck in all you do! Let’s go Panthers!

successful in college (while completing two required courses)! Due to the success, we will double the size of the program this fall. More than 500 new teachers graduated last spring, and we’re on target for a similar number in May. We’re making new investments in our teacher education program to ensure that we continue to be the best in Iowa at preparing future early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary, reading and special education teachers. U.S. News and World Report once again ranked UNI as the #2 public university among peers in the Midwest region. Our CPA pass rate is once again among the highest in the country – six times the national average. And our study abroad program was named No. 4 in the country in a new national ranking of academic programs. Panther Village, our new apartmentstyle housing for upper class students, will open this fall. It has proven very

popular with students, filling to capacity in less than two days. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, 97 percent of last year’s graduates say that our faculty members were committed to their learning, 98 percent say they received a high-quality education at UNI and 98 percent say they would recommend UNI to a friend. We’re very proud of these accomplishments and are confident that our future is brighter than ever. UNI is invested in your future. For more than 135 years, we have been preparing students for careers in education, for success in business and for the knowledge and skills needed in today’s global environment. We are ready to help you do the same. Again, welcome to the UNI family. I look forward to meeting you on campus.

Jordan Bancroft-Smithe Student body president KaLeigh White Student body vice president

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Welcome, students! (Editor’s note: This letter was sent to students admitted to UNI for the fall 2012 semester from President Ben Allen.)

Congratulations on your admission to the University of Northern Iowa and welcome to the UNI family. I am confident that you will contribute a great deal to our campus community and that you will benefit from all that the university has to offer. UNI is stronger than ever and we’ve had a very successful year on campus: Ten faculty and 250 new students participated in our first-ever Cornerstone experience. This learning community featured groups of 25 firstyear students taking a portion of their coursework together. Students made new friends, connected with faculty and felt better prepared to be

Sincerely, Benjamin J. Allen President

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EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS KRISTEN MCPHERON SARAH KELZER Editorial Assistants at the Northern Iowan are a team of volunteers who assist the Copy Editor in reviewing content.

The Northern Iowan is published semiweekly on Tuesday and Friday during the academic year; weekly on Friday during the summer session, except for holidays and examination periods, by the University of Northern Iowa, L011 Maucker Union, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0166 under the auspices of the Board of Student Publications. Advertising errors that are the fault of the Northern Iowan will be corrected at no cost to the advertiser only if the Northern Iowan office is notified within seven days of the original publication. Publisher reserves the right to refuse any advertisement at any time. The Northern Iowan is funded in part with student activity fees. A copy of the Northern Iowan grievance procedure is available at the Northern Iowan office, located at L011 Maucker Union. All material is copyright © 2012 by the Northern Iowan and may not be used without permission.

A letter from the College of Education The University of Northern Iowa has a 136-year tradition in teacher education and is a leader in pre-K through 12 education and education-related issues in Iowa. In the College of Education, 2,800 graduate and undergraduate students study under 174 faculty members. The college is composed of six departments with programs leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Education, Specialist in Education and Doctor of Education. Well-known for preparing elementary, middle-level, health and physical education teachers, the College of Education programs also prepare school psycholo-

gists, principals, superintendents, early childhood education providers, environmental health specialists, athletic trainers, professionals for nonprofit organizations and university faculty members. UNI has the largest teacher education program in Iowa, offering more than 60 undergraduate and graduate endorsements across the university. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa’s teachers and 33 percent of Iowa’s superintendents and principals are UNI graduates. UNI places more than 500 student teachers in 40 to 60 Iowa counties – that translates into 500 new teachers every year. The UNI student teaching program also places student teachers in

out-of-state and international teaching opportunities. Students in the College of Education enjoy hands-on learning and teaching experience to enhance their classroom learning. In 2011-12, UNI’s College of Education served 250 schools, 1,500 educators and 75,000 preK-12 students. Dr. Dwight C. Watson Dean, College of Education

See page 4 for letters from the deans of the Colleges of Humanities, Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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A letter from the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences Welcome to UNI! The College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (CHAS) is a place where you can create your own future. Selecting from courses, majors and student organizations in a wide range of subjects, you can work closely with faculty and fellow students in a large variety of settings. Faculty and stu-

dents work together in innovative ways at UNI. Each of our departments prides itself on connecting with students. CHAS is home to majors ranging from biology to English and from computer science to art. Students in the sciences have developed solarpowered vehicles, examined ways of preventing cancer, explored new methods for detecting water contaminants, discovered new geometric theorems and enhanced methods of producing new metals. Students in the humanities and arts also work closely with faculty. They create and produce music; explore various disciplines of art, video and theatre; express

themselves through creative writing; and much more. One of the best ways to make UNI your new home is to get involved in student organizations. These organizations allow you to meet and make friends with others who share a common interest. Select an organization that fits you best from our complete listing at www.uni.edu/siac. UNI is the place to be for an excellent education and endless experiential learning opportunities. We look forward to building your future with you. Joel Haack Dean, College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences

A letter from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

A letter from the College of Business Administration

On behalf of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (CSBS), I want to welcome you to the start of the 2011-12 academic year. Our faculty and students focus on studying and solving real world problems, from integrating immigrants in Iowa and the causes of war in Africa, to effective crime prevention strategies, and how natural disasters impact communities. We have programs that address family relations and the psychology of personality, pre-law, the role of gender and race in society, globalization and the history and politics of every region in the world. With most people changing careers several times over the course of their lives, we provide students with the skills to succeed and adapt to changing markets, not just for a job. Our students learn from faculty using innovative teaching

Welcome to UNI! If you want your college education to open doors for an exciting career in just about any industry, take a look at the College of Business Administration at UNI. Our outstanding programs are designed to prepare graduates to hit the ground running with confidence, technical knowledge and determination. Our students take pride knowing they’re enrolled in a business school that is considered one of the best in the world (Princeton Review, 2007-2012) and holds an accreditation achieved by only the top 5 percent of business schools in the world (AACSB International). We take pride in the fact that our students consistently outperform their peers on standardized professional examinations such as CPA and CFA and go on to achieve great personal and professional success in a wide variety of industries. Our commitment to career preparation combines rigorous academic coursework with a wide range of educational enhancements. Our

techniques and classrooms equipped with the latest technology. CSBS is committed to providing student experiences such as internships, field experiences, faculty-student research opportunities and international study abroad programs, that enhance the value of a UNI education and prepare students to succeed in a global society and economy. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences teaches the most courses in the Liberal Arts Core (LAC), because we are committed to the idea of a quality undergraduate education as the key to a lifetime of learning, whatever careers students pursue. At the same time, our faculties engage in world-class research, receiving funding from government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Justice and the Fulbright Commission, among others. We invite you to explore the people and programs of CSBS! Philip Mauceri, Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Professional Readiness Program complements the academic component of a UNI business degree by developing students’ skills in communication, problem solving, international relations and professional competence. And we encourage — and fund — numerous study abroad, internship, research and entrepreneurial activities. I’m confident you will be impressed with our exceptional business classes and the faculty’s commitment to your success. You can become part of a proud tradition with a business degree from UNI. Sincerely, Farzad Moussavi Dean, College of Business Administration

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Looking for something fun to do? ALLIE KOOLBECK Editorial Staff

Check out some of the unique activities and stores Cedar Falls offers. There are too many to include here, but Pursuing Picasso, Roots Market, Lampost Theatre Co. and the Cedar Valley trails are all worth investigating during your time in Cedar Falls.

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Pursuing Picasso Pursuing Picasso is a paint-yourown-pottery studio, located at 109 Main Street. No appointment is needed – just walk on in and start painting anything from dishware to small animals and figurines to light frames. The store has stamps and stencils available to help the less-than-artistically inclined make their pottery look amazing. While you’re there, indulge in some of the ice cream and old-fashioned candy Pursuing Picasso sells. The price differs upon the piece of pottery painted; however, there is a sitting fee of $6 for adults and $4 for children. Pursuing Picasso is open on Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday WHITNEY PHILLIPS/Northern Iowan through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 Pursuing Picasso is a paint-your-own-pottery studio, located at 109 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Main Street.

Roots Market According to its website, Roots Market is “a full service grocery store specializing in organic and naturally produced food.” It is a great place to get hard-to-find organic food and natural products. It is also fun just to look around at the different products offered. It offers organic – and sometimes local – produce; meat, eggs, bread, granola and honey from local farms and companies; organic coffee and tea, raw and roasted nuts, oatmeal, candy, pasta, beans and legumes and more in bulk; and lots of good options for vegetarians, including tempeh, seitan and tofu products. Roots Market also offers natural personal care products, such as shampoos, lotions, soaps, feminine hygiene products, makeup and toothpaste. It also offers natural household cleaning products as well as lots of vitamins, supplements and herbs. Hungry? Check out their

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Roots Market is a grocery store offering organic and local products. It also has a deli.

deli, which offers sandwiches, soups and fresh baked goods (cookies, breads and scones). Vegetarians will delight at the sandwiches offered – such as the fakin, spinach and tomato sandwich, which is bacon tempeh, spinach, tomato and Vegenaise (vegan mayonnaise) on wheat bread.

Roots Market is located at 2021 Main Street. It is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The deli is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cedar Valley trails Like exercising and being outdoors? Check out the more than 106 miles of recreational trails in the Cedar Falls area. Individuals can use these trails for biking, hiking, crosscountry skiing or skating. Eighty miles of these trails are hardsurfaced. The trails go through the woods, along the Cedar River, by lakes and streams and through downtown Cedar Falls. Want a challenge? Try biking all the way from Cedar Falls to Cedar Rapids on the trails. There is also a water trail – the first in the state, according to the Cedar Falls Partnership website. The water trail is a 10-mile loop using the Cedar River and Chain of Lakes.

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The Lampost Theatre Co. (above) is located at 204 West Seerley Boulevard. It is a full-service coffee bar, has Wi-Fi and has different events on the weekends.

Lampost is a coffee shop and theatre located at 204 West Seerley Boulevard. Students looking for a place to study or just enjoy some coffee can go to Lampost as it offers a full-service coffee bar, including fair-trade coffee, and has Wi-Fi. Lampost also has different events on the weekends, such as live music, local or student bands, swing dancing, variety shows and comedy shows. These events are free and open to anyone. Lampost also puts on three or four live, original theatrical productions per year. The owners of Lampost, a nonprofit organization, write the play and the music. A variety of people act in these shows, including UNI students, Lampost staff members and other community members. Lampost is a ministry, but according to Dana Kline, one of Lampost staff members,

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Living in the dorms? What to bring (and not to bring)

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DON’T bring anything that violates DOR policy. These policies are in effect to keep you and the hundreds of other people living in your building safe.

DON’T bring your state-of-the-art sound system complete with an earthquake-generating subwoofer. Even when quiet hours aren’t in effect, nobody else wants to be forced to hear booming bass all hours of the day. Plus, courtesy hours are always in effect, which means your neighbors reserve the right to ask you to turn the music down at any time. DON’T bring things you don’t need that will distract you from your studies too much. If your Xbox addiction has competed with homework in the past, it might be best to leave the games at home.

DON’T bring a ton of food if you have 19 meals a week (or even 14, if you know you’ll never be up for breakfast in the morning).

DON’T bring unnecessary valuables.

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DO bring games and movies for hanging out with new friends and roommates.

DO bring shower shoes and a shower caddy. A robe and extra towels are good too.

DO bring clothes that reflect how quickly the weather changes in Iowa, especially if you’re far from home. Rain boots, umbrellas, light and heavy coats, snow boots and even long underwear are great to have. DO bring posters and photos to decorate your room, as well as things like 3M Command Strips to safely and cleanly fasten them to a wall. Those temporary hooks are also great for hanging things like jewelry, hats, robes and coats. DO bring an ice pack if you have a fridge with a freezer. Unless you live in ROTH or Panther Village, you’ll be without air conditioning. On warmer nights, you can lie with the ice pack under your lower back. It will help lower your body temperature and therefore help you sleep. DO try not to overpack. Your parents can always send something along if you need it, and you can make a Walmart or Target run before they leave on move-in day. Less is more! Illustrations by JOHN ANDERSON/Northern Iowan

After you move in — some tips for residence life Finally. The moment you’ve been anticipating is just around the corner. You have your purple and gold blanket, posters

displaying your favorite musicians and the all-important assortment of nonperishable foods. It is almost the moment

when you will be a Panther living the full UNI experience in a residence hall. You’ve heard the good and

the bad about residing in a residence hall, and now it’s time to figure out what it’s really all about. From roommates to food--to where you can get help with homework, Linnea Griffith, resident assistant for Andromeda House in Noehren Hall has the scoop. After moving in and “living” in the room, you’ll quickly notice the list of things that need to be cleaned or organized will rise. If you have a roommate, equally distribute cleaning duties with one another. One person can vacuum while the other freshens up other areas. By teaming up with your roommate, accomplishing tidiness and upkeep of your room will be a cinch. Griffith also recommends cleaning dishes right after eating and figuring out which shelf of the refrigerator belongs to whom. Ok, so now you’ve moved in and settled down. Everything seems to be going great until that first big conflict arises between you and your roommate. Whether the issue involves a mess that was left or listening to music too loudly, the best thing to do is talk it out. “If you have a problem, don’t bottle it up. Bring it out into the open,” Griffith said. Discussing an issue in a polite manner shows respect for both yourself and your roommate. However, if the conflict is not resolved by conversation, Griffith said the next best thing to do is go to your RA and figure out what can be done from there. Freshmen Nick Stanford

and Danielle Brunson both lived in residence halls this past year and enjoyed their experience. They have some tips on how to have a successful freshman year in UNI’s residence halls. Stanford suggests making early contact with your roommate to learn more about them and to collaborate on what to bring for the fall. “Look for them on Facebook and start messaging them. Figure out who’s going to bring what and once you actually get there at the beginning of the school year, talk to them and get to know them,” Stanford said. Brunson said she enjoys living in the residence hall and is living with the same roommate again next year. “It’s pretty easy to have a good relationship with your roommate. You have to sometimes change things about your lifestyle so you can live together well, but not huge changes,” Brunson said. While moving into a new place may seem intimidating at first, opening up and getting to know the neighbors around you helps build a fun, lasting relationship. Leave your door open and give your neighbors the opportunity to drop by and learn more about you. “You might think it’s really awkward to leave your door open, but that’s the opportunity for people to stop by and introduce themselves,” Griffith said. “It shows people that you’re there, and you’ll make so many friends by just having your door open.”

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Always get your fill with UNI’s dining options ALEC GLUESING Staff Writer

Meal plans

ome of the most common questions incoming college freshmen ask are where and what to eat on campus. You may have heard horror stories from your parents or siblings about a constant diet of ramen noodles and other junk food, but have no fear – UNI offers a wide variety of on-campus dining options to keep students well-nourished and healthy.

If you choose to live in the residence halls like many other UNI students, you’ll also pick a meal plan option as a part of your residence contract. This plan determines the amount of meals you can eat per week at the Piazza and Rialto dining centers, as well as Café on the Way and Dashes if you want to eat on the go. Several options are available, ranging from 14 to 19 meals per week or even an unlimited Premium plan. It’s important to make sure you choose an option that fits your eating habits, and you’ll also want to get the most out of your plan by eating the meals you’ve purchased when you can rather than snacking in your room or getting fast food!

Dining dollars

Dining Dollars are included as a part of the meal plan you choose, with more expensive plans offering a greater Dining Dollar balance for each semester. These work as a convenient prepaid account which you can use to buy products at the convenience stores on campus or to pay at the dining centers if you run out of meals for the week. Unspent Dining Dollars carry over from first semester to second, but not over summer break – so make sure to use them up before the end of the year.

Food carts: Apple Cart, Commodities and Crunch Break

Need to grab a quick snack or light meal between classes? Don’t have time for a trip to the dining center? Dining Services offers three “food carts” with a selection of soups, sandwiches, snacks and beverages to keep you fueled up when you don’t have time for a full pit stop. Apple Cart is located in Schindler Education Center on the main floor. Commodities can be found in the Curris Business Building just outside the Hall of Flags on the main floor (coming from the north entrance). Crunch Break is in the Wellness and Recreation Center, on the main floor beyond the front desk. Apple Cart is open 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays, Commodities is open 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. weekdays and Crunch Break is open 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Additionally, Apple Cart is open for dinner Monday through Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. You can’t use your meal plan at the food carts, but you can use Dining Dollars, U-Bill charge or cash.

Dining centers - Piazza and Rialto

Students living in Noehren, Rider, Shull, or Hagemann residence halls (colloquially known as “the Quads”) have easy access to Piazza, located inside the Redeker Center and conveniently connected to the four residence halls by enclosed walkways – which are especially nice during those northern Iowa winter months! You’ll find Rialto in the Towers Center, between Dancer and Bender (“the Towers”) residence halls. Many styles and choices are available at the various venues in Piazza and Rialto, including traditional American fried and grilled food like cheeseburgers and French fries, made-to-order deli sandwiches, salad and pasta bars, made-to-order stir fry and more. Vegetarian and vegan options are available as well. Piazza and Rialto offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night meal serving times. Eating at the dining centers is primarily covered by your meal plan, but other payment options such as Dining Dollars and charging to your U-Bill are acceptable as well. Some meal plans include guest passes. The dining centers also accept cash or checks. Rialto and Piazza offer great convenience for those living on campus, not to mention value – each meal is all-you-care-to-eat!

Quick meals to go - Café on the Way and Dashes

College is a busy place! When you need to grab a quick bite or would rather take a meal back to your room, Café on the Way and Dashes have you covered. Café on the Way is located in the Redeker Center, right outside of Piazza’s North entrance. Dashes is located in the Towers Center next to Rialto, on the side closer to Dancer Hall. Menu selections vary from day to day, but common choices include cold-cut sandwiches, hot soup and take-out items from the dining centers’ current menus. Payment options at Café on the Way and Dashes are the same as at Piazza and Rialto, but meal selection works a bit differently. For each meal you’re allowed to take two hot entrees, two drinks, and three smaller side items like fruit, chips or cookies.

Convenience stores - Biscotti’s, 23rd Street Market and Essentials

When you’re running low on groceries, snacks or hygienic supplies, or just want some fresh baked goods, UNI’s on-campus convenience stores are there for you. Biscotti’s is located on the bottom level of the Redeker Center, just inside the north entrance. 23rd Street Market is inside the Commons building, between Bartlett Hall and Lawther Hall. You’ll find Essentials in Maucker Union. All three stores offer a large selection of grocery supplies, snack food, and nonalcoholic drinks. Biscotti’s is right next to Fresh Beginnings bakery, and provides delicious fresh baked goods like donuts and cookies to customers on a daily basis. 23rd Street Market has a deli bar, hot food items such as Godfather’s Pizza and hot dogs, and a self-serve milkshake machine with many flavors to choose from. Essentials is a great place to go on campus if you need to shop for more than just food. They sell hygiene products such as shampoo and deodorant as well as UNI apparel. Payment options for the convenience stores include Dining Dollars, U-Bill charge, cash, check and credit or debit cards.

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Fast Facts about UNI

Become a UNI expert in minutes with this quick look at UNI and its history! KARI BRAUMANN Editorial Staff

UNI offers study abroad programs on six continents and National Student Exchange, where you pay UNI tuition and temporarily attend another participating school just about anywhere in the country.

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Ellis Cose speaks in Maucker Union on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The CME hosted Cose, a journalist and author, for a talk on MLK’s movement.

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The Center for Multicultural Education, part of the Maucker Union plaza level, offers many opportunities to explore diverse cultures including lectures, movie nights and workshops.

The two dining halls on campus, the Rialto and the Piazza, have each been renovated in the last several years and feature a buffet-style, “all-you-care-to-eat” setup with a wide variety of cuisines.

The Counseling Center, located above the Student Health Clinic, is a resource students can utilize for individual, couples or group counseling. It also offers informative workshops on various mentalhealth-related topics.

There are several intramural programs offered for students interested in playing just about any sport. Leagues often include men’s, women’s and coed divisions and tournament opportunities.

UNI has an active Greek community with four sororities comprising the Panhellenic Council and five fraternities making up the Interfraternity Council. Greek Life provides opportunities for social activities as well as community involvement.

UNI has more than 100,000 living alumni today, most of whom still reside in the state of Iowa. More than 9,000 of them are married to another UNI graduate and more than 700 alumni work on the campus of their alma mater.

UNI has its own police department with about two dozen officers on staff to keep students safe. Additionally, Public Safety provides services such as lighted outdoor emergency phones and 24hour walking escorts on campus.

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UNI has been known by four names in its 136-year history: Iowa State Normal School, Iowa State Teachers College, State College of Iowa and finally the University of Northern Iowa.

The Northern Iowan, like UNI, has been known by various other names in its past, such as the Normal Eyte, and the College Eye. The first version of what is now the NI appeared in January 1892 – more than 120 years ago!

The UNI bass studio presents a double bass concert for Valentine’s Day.

The UNI School of Music offers band, choral, jazz, opera and orchestra ensembles as well as some smaller ensembles. A student doesn’t have to be a music major to audition for these groups.

Part of the Academic Learning Center, the Writing Center offers free help for students struggling with writing projects or preparing for exams such as the PPST or GRE.

Didn’t become an honors student upon entering UNI? You can still join the honors program as a current student with a cumulate UNI GPA of 3.3 or above and recommendation from a professor.

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The Dalai Lama spoke in the McLeod Center in May 2010.

Besides playing host to UNI athletic events, the UNI-Dome and the McLeod Center also host concerts, exhibitions and other events for students and community alike.

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Get squared away at Financial Aid

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Rachel Smithart, a junior sociology major and financial aid employee, assists Amy Halverson, a senior family services major, at the Office of Student Financial Aid in Gilchrist Hall.

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The cost of a college education can be daunting. Don’t get sticker shock when you see that price tag: the Office of Student Financial Aid can help students finance their education and budget wisely throughout the college years. Much of the preparation for receiving one’s financial aid is completed before or during orientation. Most students’ loans, scholarships and grants will “pay out” in approximately mid-August if they have completed all the necessary steps. Some students, however, may be wondering around Aug. 20, “Where’s my money?” First, ensure you have accepted all the financial aid you wish to take in MyUNIverse. If that’s not the problem, there are a few other scenarios that may delay your financial aid coming through. In any case, call the Office of Student Financial Aid at 319273-2700 with questions or for detailed information. Enrollment: Students must be enrolled at least half-time (six hours for undergraduates) to receive loans and at least full-time (12 hours) for most scholarships. Federal loans. Make sure you have completed entrance counseling and a master promissory note. These can be filled out at www.studentloans.gov. Verification holds. If your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has been randomly selected for verification each year, that process must be complete for finan-

cial aid to pay out. You can view a list of items Financial Aid needs from you under the Student Center tab in your MyUNIverse. Look for a “todo list” on the right-hand side of the page. TEACH grants. If you accepted the TEACH grant but are not seeing that money on your account, there are a few steps you may have missed. Call the Office of Student Financial Aid for help completing the necessary steps. Private loans. As with TEACH grants, private loans require some extra steps for the money to pay out. Call Financial Aid as soon as you decide to take out a private loan with a bank or credit union to discuss the process you must follow. Parent PLUS loans. The parent who is signing on as the borrower of the loan must log in to www.studentloans. gov and fill out two items: a master promissory note and a Parent PLUS request form. Direct deposit. If you are not signed up for direct deposit, you may need to pick up a paper check at the Cashier’s Office in Gilchrist Hall. For questions about direct deposit and paper refund checks, contact Business Operations at 319-273-2162. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of potential financial aid problems – they vary from student to student. To ensure your financial aid is squared away, contact the Office of Student Financial Aid or drop by their office at 105 Gilchrist Hall – no appointment necessary.

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Public Safety at UNI The University of Northern Iowa employs more than 25 state-certified police officers and dispatchers to keep the UNI campus safe. Members of the UNI Police and Public Safety staff are on the clock 24/7 to respond to any calls. UNI police officers patrol on foot, in vehicles marked “UNI Police,” and even on bikes. Public Safety also employs a student patrol, recognizable by their silver jackets and navy polos.

The lighted blue safety phone poles on campus are for anyone to use in case of an emergency. To use them, press the button and begin speaking. A map with the locations of all 10 emergency phones is at www.vpaf.uni.edu/ pubsaf/contacting_police/ bluelightmap.shtml.

For more information and crime prevention tips, visit Public Safety’s website at http://vpaf.uni.edu/ pubsaf.

For on-campus emergencies, dial 319-273-4000 (or 3-4000 from a campus landline). UNI police will contact 911 for you and serve as first responders on the scene of an emergency.

If you’d rather not walk across campus alone after a late-night cram session with friends, or you find yourself parked in the R lot listening to the prairie winds howl, you can call 319-273-2712 for an escort. UNI police can meet you on foot or pick you up. The service is free and available 24/7.

Violence Intervention Services provides assistance for students who are experiencing or have experienced sexual assault, physical or emotional abuse, stalking and harassment. They can connect students with campus and community resources to seek legal resolution and feel safe. All VIS services are confidential and free of charge. Call 319-273-2137 for more information. Information by KARI BRAUMANN/Editorial Staff. Photo by WHITNEY PHILLIPS/Northern Iowan.

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The combination of busy schedules and living, studying and working closely with scores of other people can make staying healthy during college a challenge. If you are sick or injured on campus, the University of Northern Iowa Student Health Clinic is here to help. Any currently enrolled student taking at least six credit hours (five for graduate students) can use the SHC’s services. There is no charge for office visits for illness or injury, even for students without health insurance. Some services incur a fee. These services include yearly physicals (including gynecological), laboratory services, pharmacy services, immunizations, testing for tuberculosis, allergy injections and minor surgery or other inpatient procedures. A list of services and the fees associated with them is available in the SHC by request. For your first visit, students must bring health and pharmacy insurance cards (if insured), know any prescriptions they are currently taking and dosages, and know their medication allergies and sensitivities.

The SHC includes a pharmacy with a fulltime pharmacist on staff. Students may fill their prescriptions there regardless of where their medications were prescribed. Over-thecounter medications are also available. There are three ways to fill a prescription at the UNI Pharmacy: bring a copy of the written prescription in with your insurance card, have your doctor call it in, or fax it to the pharmacy. Finally, the UNI Counseling Center is open to all students who are enrolled at least half time (six hours for undergraduates). Conveniently located on the second floor of the SHC, the Counseling Center provides confidential mental health services. Students may seek individual counseling, couples’ counseling or group counseling (call for current group session availability). To get started with counseling services, students can call the Counseling Center and schedule an initial assessment. During the assessment, the student fills out a questionnaire and meets with a counselor to discuss the student’s concerns. If appropriate, students may then be assigned to a counselor for weekly or biweekly sessions.

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A group of students make the most of nice weather as they study on top of Maucker Union.

Hit up these spots when you’re hitting the books KIRSTEN TJOSSEM

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oing from having maybe a few siblings to sharing a room with someone and a building with a few hundred other people, distractions aren’t hard to come by. Luckily, UNI’s campus is full of study spots that will fit anyone’s needs. The most obvious place to study is the library. When it’s time to really crack down or if any sort of noise is a distraction, the Rod is the best option. While the library as a whole is quieter than most places on campus, certain areas are typically quieter than others. “I find the basement of the library to fit my needs the best. It’s spacious and extremely quiet,” said Rachel Volner, a graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology. The basement, as well as the third and fourth floors, are the quietest floors of the library. There are all sorts of hidden tables and desks dispersed throughout each of

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Alissa Westphal, a graduate student in public policy, studies in the fourth floor of the Rod library, a quiet study spot with several nooks and crannies.

these floors. The second floor, where the main entrance is location, is the loudest. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum in terms of noise, the Union is also a popular place to study. The main area, where people typically eat and socialize, is ideal for people who like some sort of activity to be going on in the background. Study breaks that involve an unlimited amount of people watching and a good ol’ classic dirt cup from Prexy’s are a must. The floors above and below the main level of the Union are quieter, while still maintaining some level of noise. “There’s a little cubby behind Chats in the Union,” said Lynette Williams, a junior Psychology major. “You have your own little bubble, and it’s usually pretty quiet.” Besides these two main places, the majority of the buildings around campus have some sort of acceptable study spot, whether it’s tables and chairs or couches. When the weather’s nice, grab a blanket and head outside. Lawther field and the grassy area between Campbell and The Towers are both great places to enjoy a little sunshine and productivity. Whatever a person’s study spot needs may be, the UNI campus will have it. Test out old and new places. Take time to find the perfect place, because the joy that is studying has just begun.

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TEHRENE FIRMAN On those days when the Rialto’s noodles and cheese sauce just aren’t cutting Editorial Staff

it or some time off campus is much needed, there are numerous places around Cedar Falls that are sure to not only make any picky stomach happy, but bank accounts as well.

Places to take parents

When parents come into town for a visit, it’s inevitable that any student is going to want to skip the usual dollar menu purchases at McDonald’s and hit up a place where someone with money will pay for the meal. The Pump Haus, located at 311 Main Street, serves the best bar food a college student can ask for, from seasoned French fries to perfectly battered chicken strips and juicy hamburgers. Most plates run around $7 to $10, so it’s a perfect place to take family where everyone can find something on the menu that will satisfy their taste buds. The Brown Bottle, located at 1111 Center Street, is fairly expensive for college students, but usually not for parents. When there’s an

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With the bright decorations and fun atmosphere, Amigos is a festive place to take in the Mexican culture — free chips and salsa included.

Places to go when feeling cultured TEHRENE FIRMAN/Northern Iowan

The Pump Haus serves some of the best bar-style food in town, all for around $7-$10.

urge for a little fine dining, the delicious pasta dishes and plates of steak are always the right touch.

Places to go with friends When it’s time to grab a bite to eat with friends, there are places in Cedar Falls that make bonding time together that much more fun. Chuck E. Cheese’s, located at 5991 University Ave., doesn’t always have the greatest pizza in the world, but they never fail to provide a great time. Getting dinner and $5 in tokens will be sure to relieve any stress college classes are causing and fill everyone’s stomach at the same time. Plus, there are always the sweet prizes. Texas Roadhouse, located at 5715 University Ave., is not only a fun place to go when it’s a friend’s birthday for the famous saddle ride, but it’s nice to be able to have people clean up after you for once. Give in to

Sometimes students in Cedar Falls want to get a taste of something different, and there are a couple places in the area that provide ethnic food at reasonable prices. New Century Buffet, located at 2915 McClain Drive, has a wide variety of tasty Chinese food, seafood and sushi at their all-you-caneat buffet. The best time of

the day to go is around lunchtime, when meals are under $6. Amigos, located at 5809 University Ave., serves large servings of Mexican delicacies, from enchiladas to quesadillas. Each plate is brought to the table steaming hot, and while waiting, there’s a neverending supply of free chips and salsa at your disposal.

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The Texas Roadhouse is not only a fun place to celebrate birthdays, but any night with friends.

the tradition and eat as many peanuts as you want, and be sure to throw all of the shells on the floor. It’s like high school all over again.

Places to go on a date Obviously a trip through the Piazza won’t cut it for a first date, but there are some restaurants within walking distance of campus that will be sure to make the night one to remember. The Other Place, located on College Hill, is the perfect atmosphere to sit down and talk, but have just enough noise to ensure things don’t get awkward. With the quick service and mouth-watering pizza, any date is bound to run smoothly. Ippa Asian Cuisine, located on College Hill, can be considered one of the most delicious hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Cedar Falls. With their great selection of Asian food and unique atmosphere, the date will never be boring. Want to make the date extra romantic?

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The unique setting of this table at Ippa Asian Cuisine makes for a unique and romantic date spot.

Request to sit in the so-called V.I.P. area of the restaurant, pillow seats on the floor and all.

Places for night owls and early risers

No matter whether you’re up late writing a 12-page paper due the next morning or need a hearty breakfast after a night out on the town, there are places in Cedar Falls where food is just a call away and getting served free refills of coffee in pajamas is totally acceptable. Jimmy John’s, which can be reached at (319) 266-9977, will deliver freaky-fast sandwiches right to your door on those nights when hunger just can’t wait. Great Wall, which can be reached at (319) 266-9977, delivers a wide variety of Chinese food and sushi, even when college students are packed so tight in the building that no one can even move. Meals are around $5 to $6, and the fortune always comes free. Village Inn, located at 6301 University Ave., is a hot spot for anyone who needs a big breakfast after a long night. Meals are around $7 to $10, and the bright colors of the retro atmosphere definitely help with waking up in the morning.

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More than 300 organizations = endless opportunities There are currently 318 recognized student organizations at the University of Northern Iowa, meaning that no matter where your interests lie, there’s probably an organization that fits them — and if there isn’t, you can start one. Organizations recognized by the Northern Iowa Student Government can reserve university rooms for meetings and apply for funding for programming and campus events. These organizations build community, explore academic interests, combat disease, foster artistic impulses, and so much more. Here are some quick facts to help you get involved on campus.

Student organization categories ACADEMIC BUSINESS COMPUTER EDUCATION ETHNIC-CULTURAL EVENT PLANNING FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES GENERAL INTEREST GOVERNMENT HONOR SOCIETIES

LANGUAGE MUSIC POLITICAL PUBLICATION & MEDIA RELIGIOUS SCIENCE SERVICE SPORTS THEATRE & ARTS

For a complete listing of student organizations, visit: www.uni.edu/maucker/siac

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The keeper tosses the quaffle as students from the UNI Quidditch Club play the wizarding world’s favorite sport at the Cedar Falls High School football practice field last fall. The quidditch club is just one of the 318 student organizations on campus.

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UNI athletics: 2011-12 success BRAD EILERS

Sports Editor

2011-12 has helped set the foundation for what should be another successful year of athletics in 2012-13 for the University of Northern Iowa Panthers. Here’s a look back at the 2011-12 team accomplishments:

Volleyball

The volleyball team continued their Missouri Valley Conference dominance by winning their third straight MVC title and pushing their MVC winning streak to 60 consecutive games.

Football

The football team won their third straight Missouri Valley Football Conference title and finished the year ranked No. 5 in the Football Championship Subdivision.

Women’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball

The women’s basketball team won their first-ever postseason tournament game en route to becoming the Women’s Basketball Invitational national champion runner-up.

Wrestling

The wrestling team sent five wrestlers to St. Louis for the NCAA Championships, with two wrestlers coming just one win shy of being named All-Americans.

Soccer

The soccer team won their first ever MVC Tournament game, defeating reigning champion Creighton University on penalty kicks.

Softball

The softball team is off to a 33-12 start to the season and is 17-2 in MVC play. UNI started receiving top-25 votes for the first time in school history.

The men’s basketball team made their first-ever appearance in the National Invitational Tournament and won 20-plus games for the fourth straight season.

Track and Field

Track and field has had numerous athletes shatter school records this year. BRANDON BAKER/Northern Iowan

Top storylines for 2012-13: 1. Can the UNI volleyball team continue their MVC dominance and expand upon their 60-game winning streak against MVC foes? 2. Will Jacqui Kalin’s return to the UNI women’s basketball team spark another run to the NCAA Tournament? 3. The class of 2011, arguably the mosthyped recruiting class in UNI men’s basketball history, will finally get to see the court after half the class redshirted last

season. Can UNI win the MVC title and return to the NCAA Tournament? 4. Can the UNI football team win their fourth straight MVFC title and their firstever national title? 5. UNI returns five wrestlers who made the NCAA championships in 2011-12. Can the UNI wrestling program return to prominence and earn some All-American honors? WHITNEY PHILLIPS/Northern Iowan

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Players to watch: 1. Jacqui Kalin, Sr., women’s basketball – Kalin missed all of last season with an injury and all of her sophomore year with an injury, but has led the Panthers in scoring in each of the three years she has been healthy. 2. Amy Braun, Jr., volleyball – Braun started all 35 matches as a junior and was second in assists (.76/set), second in digs (3.61/set) and fourth in kills (2.4/set).

3. Anthony James, Jr., men’s basketball – James led the men’s basketball team in scoring, averaging 12.5 points per game last season. 4. David Bonin, Jr., wrestling – Bonin finished the year with a 30-9 record and made an appearance in the NCAA National Championships. 5. Ashley Capone, Jr., soccer – Capone led the UNI soccer team with four goals scored last season. Northern Iowan Archives

Stars of the future: 1. David Johnson, Fr., football – Johnson rushed for 822 yards and nine touchdowns as a freshman and was fourth in the balloting for the Jerry Rice Award for the nation’s top freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision. 2. Seth Tuttle, Fr., men’s basketball – Tuttle averaged 9.6 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game and was named MVC Freshman of the Year and a mid-major freshman All-American.

3. Joe Colon, So., wrestling – Colon finished the year at 27-4 overall and was one victory shy of being an All-American. 4. Ryan Loder, So., wrestling – Loder finished the year 35-6 overall and was one victory shy of being an All-American. 5. Jamie Fisher, So., softball – Fisher has helped the Panthers get off to a strong start this season and she is currently 17-2 with a stellar 1.53 earned run average. MATT FININ/Northern Iowan

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All the world’s a stage A look at UNI’s theatrical opportunities CAITIE PETERSON

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Rachel Malkewitz, Shaun Knapp and Callie Buck (behind) perform in the Interpreters Theatre’s “Brother Wolf,” an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon epic “Beowulf.”

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f you feel the stage calling your name, long to hear the applause of an enthusiastically appreciative crowd, are handy with a hammer or just want to take in a show, the University of Northern Iowa offers many opportunities to get involved in the world of theatre. With a production history dating back to 1878, UNI’s theatre department puts on four to six productions each year. Located in Strayer-Wood Theatre, all main stage productions are free for all UNI students to attend, just bring your UCard. Auditions for Fall 2012’s productions of “Lysistrata” and “November” are open to all students. For more information about how you can get involved in Strayer-Wood productions, visit www.uni.edu/theatre and be sure to check MyUNIverse News, which is sent to your UNI email inbox twice a week. The University of Northern Iowa Student Theatre Association (UNISTA) is a group of students dedicated to bringing theatre to all of campus. Whether it’s putting on an outdoor show, raising funds for charity or displaying student work at the 10-Minute Play Festival, UNISTA is not afraid to

challenge their members’ limits and bring well-rehearsed shows to their peers. UNISTA Board meetings are every Monday at 5 p.m. in StrayerWood Theatre’s South Lobby. You can check out www.unistaonline.org. If you journey across campus to Lang Hall, you’ll find the Interpreters Theatre, a student-centered program that lets students get hands-on experience in all things theatre. While faculty members guide students throughout rehearsals and shows, the Interpreters Theatre website states their main goal “is for students to learn by doing.” Four to six shows are put on each year, with auditions and shows announced each semester. To find out more, go to www.uni. edu/interptheatre. Other theatre-related groups on campus include Half-Masted, an improv comedy group that puts on shows, seminars, and workshops around Iowa, and Sissy’s Sircus, a burlesque and drag troupe going on its fourth year as a student organization. While Half-Masted puts on both family-friendly and adultoriented shows, Sissy’s Sircus is most definitely not for kids. For more information on Half-Masted, head on over to www.half-masted.com; for Sissy’s Sircus, head to www.sissyssircus.com.

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The UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club performs during its annual Christmas Variety Show in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center.

If music be the food of love... JOHN ANDERSON

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motion surged through more than 100 voices on April 25, 2012, merging with the sweeping sounds of an orchestra in a powerful performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. The performance, which featured four ensembles, showcased the talent and breadth of the University of Northern Iowa’s student musicians. With 23 ensembles and more than 100 performances annually, there’s no shortage of ways for students to participate in the UNI School of Music. Performances can range from the grandiose “Requiem” to the hilarious “Tuba Wars,” a marriage of “Star Wars” and low brass, and anything in between, and all School of Music performances are free for UNI students. Ensembles include concert and symphonic bands, wind symphony, the Panther Marching Band, five choral ensembles, three jazz bands, an opera studio, an orchestra and many smaller ensembles including flute choir and a taiko drum ensemble.

Students can learn more about auditioning for an ensemble by visiting www.uni.edu/music/ ensembles/auditions, and many ensembles accept students who aren’t majoring in music. Students can also enjoy the sonorous performances of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra at the GBPAC, with $5 rush tickets available on the day of concerts. Led by acclaimed music director Jason Weinberger, the symphony performs pieces from the popular to the baroque, and even collaborated with an acrobatic company to perform “Cirque de la Symphonie” in fall 2011. The GBPAC also plays host to a number of national touring productions, including many musicals and tribute bands, and students get two free tickets to GBPAC performances every semester. During the 2011-12 academic year, the GBPAC featured the Blue Man Group, Mannheim Steamroller, Monty Python’s “Spamalot” and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, to name a few. So whether you’re looking to hear Mozart or JOHN ANDERSON/Northern Iowan Monty Python, UNI’s numerous ensembles and performance series will more than whet your Guest artist Walter Caldas, a junior music major, joins Jazz Band One on the violin at the HuB. auditory appetite.

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Need some help with schoolwork? UNI offers multiple academic resources for students AMANDA BLANCHE Editorial Staff

The University of Northern Iowa provides many on-campus academic resources for students. Whether you need a tutor, help with your writing, assistance with research or accommodations for a disability, UNI can help. The Academic Learning Center, located in the

Innovative Teaching and Technology Center (ITTC), is an excellent resource for academic assistance. Some of the services provided are Liberal Arts Core math and science tutors, study groups, feedback on papers, help with developing study skills, scheduling national exams and more. According to Latricia Hylton, the math coordinator at the ALC, the

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ALC plans on doing “supplemental instruction” for math and science courses this fall. “And with that, you have a tutor that’s tied specifically to the course that will be doing study secessions outside of the class,” Hylton explained. The Writing Center is part of the ALC and provides valuable help for any stage of the writing process. Certified writing assistants work with students to help start papers, identify patterns of errors in grammar and punctuation, fix problems with clarity and organization and learn citation styles. And as Deanne Steiner Gute, the Writing Coordinator at the Academic Learning Center, says, “everybody needs writing feedback.” Any student can use the ALC, but they must make an appointment first. Times can fill up quickly around midterms and finals, so be sure to sign up early! The ALC and Rod Library have come together this past year to create the A-Team. This team is a group of tutors who can be found in the library on Sunday nights. Their services, which include help with math, science, Personal Wellness, humanities, business courses and

assistance with college reading, study strategies and writing, are open to everyone. Other than its tutoring services, the library is also a good place to find research materials or just a nice study spot. The fourth floor is a designated quiet area, so it is a good space for people who get distracted by noise. The first, second and third floors are all great for groups. Groups can also check out study rooms, located on the first, third and fourth floors, from the Circulation Desk. The Multi-Service Center, found on the first floor, has laptops, laptop chargers, phone chargers, headphones, flash drives and a multitude of other items available for checkout that are to be used inside the library. Public computers are available for quick use on each floor, include several on the second floor that do not require users to log in. The rest of the computers found throughout the library, including those in the lab on the first floor, are generally reserved for research. The library’s online card catalog for books and other materials, UNISTAR, can be accessed from all the computers. For those with disabili-

ties, there is a room near the Reference Desk with assistive technology equipment. At UNI, students with documented disabilities are eligible for both classroom and testing accommodations. According to Ashley Brickley, the Student Disability Services Coordinator, the university goes “by the ADA’s definition of a disability, which is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life (activities).” Brickley said in order to request services, students are required to “self-identify and that they provide both Requests for Services and Documentation Review Form and their documentation from their physician or psychologist.” She also mentioned that students are encouraged to do this as soon as possible. That way, students won’t have to wait for all the paperwork to go through and they can get their accommodations at the start of the school year. Brickley’s advice to students with disabilities is to “speak up and seek out those services and get that assistance,” as it is their right to receive accommodations.

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ERIC CLAUSEN/Northern Iowan

The Health Beat (above) is located on the ground floor of Maucker Union and is open during the day. It has many cardio machines as well as strength training machines.

Hit the books, hit the gym ALLIE KOOLBECK Editorial Staff

Want to work out? Or participate in a sporting event? Or even go on a backpacking trip? The University of Northern Iowa’s Wellness and Recreation Services offers all this and more. The WRS has two main facilities: the Wellness and Recreation Center and the Health Beat.

Wellness and Recreation Center

Health Beat

Where: 2301 Hudson Road, just north of the UNI-Dome Hours for the activity and racquetball courts, fitness area and indoor track:

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• Monday through Thursday 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. • Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. • Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. • Sunday from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. • For a complete listing of hours, visit http://www.uni. edu/wellrec/hours/index.html.

What’s offered inside the WRC?

• Fitness area with cardio equipment, Magnum weight training equipment and space for core strength warm-up and cool-down and dumbbell use • Free weight room • Three-lane indoor track • 38.5-foot climbing wall • 10 basketball courts, some of which are also equipped for volleyball, indoor soccer, badminton and indoor tennis • 25-yard, eight-lane lap pool • Leisure pool with a water slide, spa and equipment for water volleyball and basketball • Six racquetball/wallyball courts • Indoor equipment, including basketballs, volleyballs, racquetball/tennis racquets and table tennis, available for rental at the Welcome Desk • Outdoor equipment, including in-line skates, camping gear, canoes, kayaks, snowshoes, and cross-country skis, available for rental through the Outdoor Recreation Office (WRC 174 or 319-273-7163). • Lockers available at the Health of Physical Education and Leisure Services equipment room. Call 319-273-2488 for hours and cost.

What outside facilities does the WRC offer?

• Eight-lane, 400-meter outdoor track – located behind the Towers • Sand volleyball court outside the WRC • Eight outdoor tennis courts, located by Bender Hall

What activities does the WRC offer?

• A variety of fitness classes, including cardio, dance, water aerobics and strength and toning classes. For students, the cost for a class held two times per week is $30, and the cost for a class held three times per week is $35. • A variety of trips, such as backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountain biking and cross-country skiing, through UNI Outdoors. • UNI Sports Clubs. Visit http://www.uni.edu/wellrec/ sports_clubs/index.html for a complete listing and how to get involved. • Intramurals. Look for announcements or visit www. imleagues.com.

Where: Ground level of Maucker Hours:

• Monday through Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. • Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

What does the Health Beat offer?

• Magnum strength training machines • Recumbent and upright bikes • Steppers • Elliptical machines • Cross trainers • Treadmills • Rower • Dumbbells • Locker facilities for men and women across the hall ERIC CLAUSEN/Northern Iowan • Two stability balls Paige Besler, a senior communication major, works out • Area for core fitness in the Health Beat.

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Need a place to park?

Students can purchase a parking permit on MyUNIverse. On-campus students can purchase a C permit for $50 per year or an R permit for $28.80 per year. A limited number of students can purchase a C Preferred (CP) permit for closer parking after they have renewed their housing contract with the DOR. A CP permit costs $65 per year. Off-campus students can purchase a B permit, or, if attending class after 4 p.m., an R permit. A B permit costs $74 per year, and an R permit costs $28.80 per year.

ERIC CLAUSEN/Northern Iowan

Students get on the Panther Shuttle at its stop at the intersection of College Street and Seerley Boulevard. The Panther Shuttle runs Monday through Friday during the school year.

Need a ride to class?

Take the Panther Shuttle, which runs Monday through Friday from 7:04 a.m. to 5:04 p.m. and is free with a UNI ID. The locations for drop-off and pickup include: ROTH, Redeker Center, University Mills apartments, the intersection of W 31st Street and Hudson Road, Hillcrest Park Apartments, Campus Courts apartments, the intersection of SE 31st Street and Hudson Road, the intersection of 27th Street and Hudson Road, Commons, and the intersection of College Street and Seerley Boulevard. Panther Shuttle is sponsored by the Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG), Metropolitan Transit Authority (MET) and UNI Public Safety.

Need a ride to somewhere off campus?

Check out the buses ran by MET. There are multiple routes, but Routes 6, 7, and 9 go through Cedar Falls and all stop at the UNI Transportation Center. Route 10 goes to Hawkeye Community College from UNI. The MET buses run Monday through Saturday, with reduced hours on Saturdays. During the academic year, Route 9 is free to students and faculty with a UNI ID. Otherwise, it is 75 cents per ride with a student ID, or students can get a discounted monthly pass for $45. Exact times and routes can be found online at www.mettransit.org/html/schedules.html.

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Traditions Challenge

Making your own history at UNI

ou’ve got your purple and gold gear. You know all about TC and the Panthers. But there’s so much more to being a true Panther than school colors and mascots. That’s where the Traditions Challenge comes in.

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Members of the Black Male Leaders Union perform their first-place routine in the finals of the Pride Cry competition during the 2011 Homecoming pep rally, a popular Panther tradition.

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Ian Goldsmith and Scott Connerly, two the three creators of the Interlude Dance, perform the dance with First Lady Michelle Obama in Wells Fargo Arena. Since exploding on the scene in early 2011, the dance has become a UNI tradition and is performed at every basketball and football game.

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All incoming freshmen receive the Traditions Challenge book, which has a list and descriptions of about 50 University of Northern Iowa traditions. While UNI no longer has a university-wide yearbook, students can use this book as a sort of scrapbook to keep track of the experiences they have here. “(You can) take your picture completing these traditions, put in the book and you’ve got your own personalized yearbook,” explained Spencer Walrath, senior psychology and music double major. Walrath is a member of the student group Connecting Alumni to Students, or CATS, which is behind the Traditions Challenge. He served as chair of the Traditions Committee and feels that learning about and following the traditions of UNI will enrich students’ college experience. “Traditions are important because they foster a sense of community with UNI, and it really connects you to what being a true Panther is,” Walrath said. “It makes you more invested in the true Panther experience.” Traditions listed in the Traditions Challenge book include attending athletic events, using campus resources such as Rod Library, participating in Homecoming festivities, joining a student organization and living in the residence halls. Students reading this issue at their freshman summer orientation session are participating in one of their first traditions right now – summer orientation is listed in the Traditions Challenge book as an “exciting opportunity to check out residence life, meet new friends and schedule classes for your first collegiate semester.” In the fall, students will be able to participate in one of the richest and best-loved UNI traditions of all: Homecoming. “I think that Homecoming is definitely a big tradition everywhere, and one of the most exciting just because there are so many different events (involved) with it,” commented Walrath. During Homecoming week, students can participate in the Panther Pride Cry and the pep rally, take on the Traditions Challenge Amazing Race and complete several traditions in the book at once, enjoy a

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multicultural fair and Friday night fireworks, cheer on the Panthers at the Homecoming football game and take part in the time-honored tradition of Campaniling. Campaniling, the tradition of kissing under the Campanile at midnight on Friday night of Homecoming week, dates back to at least the 1940s. Music echoes from the Campanile as the carillon is played. Some students bring their own kissing partners; others find one there or simply go with friends to enjoy the spectacle. A number of campus tall tales surround Campaniling. One claims that students who fail to go Campaniling before graduation may suffer the unfortunate fate of a Campanile brick falling on their heads. At the end of the Traditions Challenge book, there are blank spaces for students to write in traditions they want to add to their books. “Really, it’s the ‘make-yourown’ traditions that make the Traditions Challenge special,” Walrath said. He cited special events he has participated in, such as the Interlude Dance and Walk A Mile In Her Shoes, a men’s march across campus to raise awareness and open dialogue about women’s issues and experiences. Students who complete a certain number of the traditions in the book by graduation are eligible to become official UNI Traditions Keepers. Completing 25 traditions earns you a lapel pin to wear at commencement, and completing 45 or more traditions merits a Traditions Keeper medallion. Walrath has advice for those attempting to complete the Traditions Challenge. “Be as active and involved as you can on campus, because all of the traditions are directly tied to taking part in the Panther experience and getting involved – going to student organization meetings, going to sporting events, going to lectures, going to concerts – so definitely be active and get involved,” he said. Students should also carry a camera with them at all times, just in case they decide at the last minute to go to a Traditions Challenge event and need to take a photo. Finally, “start early, because it’s a lot more difficult to try to accomplish 45 traditions in one semester than it is to do it over the course of three to six years,” Walrath joked.

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The Northern Iowa Student Government is a group of students who represent the student body in university and non-university matters and promotes activities that are in the best interest of the student body. NISG also promotes student involvement in the governmental process by addressing issues that affect students such as tuition, financial aid, educational quality and student rights. The organization consists of three branches: executive, legislative and judicial. You can learn more about each one below.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH The executive branch is responsible for the day-to-day operation of NISG. The president and vice president are elected by the student body. All directors and other members of the executive branch are appointed by the president and approved by the senate.

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Educates the student body about pertinent issues, advocates student interests to the state government.

SUPREME COURT The NISG justices are appointed to office by the president and approved by a two-thirds vote of the senate. Justices serve for the duration of their enrollment at the university unless they resign at an earlier time. The supreme court meets as necessary to deal with matters related to constitutional discrepancies of the NISG executive or legislative branches and student organizations recognized by NISG.

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A letter from the editor W

elcome to the University of Northern Iowa! Are you ready to get started? Did you remember to pack your toothbrush and shower shoes? Got your notebooks and pens, your class schedule straightened out, a vague grasp of the dining hall schedule? Great! Now prepare for this experience to be nothing like the one you imagined before setting foot on this campus. Don’t get me wrong – it’ll be amazing. It’s just that the opportunities you’re about to come across and the experiences you’ll have are going to surprise you and (hopefully) challenge you at every turn. You’ll meet people and make friends whose life stories, personalities, politics and religious beliefs are nothing like yours. You’ll get the chance to hear the voices of people like the Dalai Lama, slam poet Taylor Mali, Michelle Obama, Touré and the founder of Post Secret. You can bust a move at Dance Marathon, have a blast at Relay For Life and sprint around campus to QUASH Alzheimer’s. You can get your purple and gold on for Panther athletics and then walk across Hudson Ave. and check out a UNI Theatre event. There are more ways to get involved than I could possibly describe here. For example, during my time at UNI, I’ve performed improv in front of 1,000 people, learned self-defense in the form of something called the “badass ballet,” shaken my booty at a Blue Man Group performance, lost a staring contest with a grey parrot in the UNI greenhouse, presented at conferences with a student group and bounced off the walls of my Dancer Hall dorm

room when Ali Farokhmanesh sank that 3-pointer. My point is that your experience at UNI will be exactly what you make it. There are so many opportunities here and new experiences to tackle. Some of them will be directly related to academics and others will not, but all of them will be an important part of your educational experience. If you’re looking to get involved, learn new skills, challenge yourself and serve the UNI community, you may want to check out the Northern Iowan. The paper you’re reading is produced completely by students. The writing, photography, design – all of it. More than that, the Northern Iowan is the product of students who are passionate about UNI. We’ve been around a while – 120 years, to be exact – and we serve both as the students’ voice on campus and a record of campus news. We need talented, dedicated individuals to make that happen – now more than ever. It doesn’t matter what your major or classification is, or even if you have journalism experience. We want investigators, storytellers, news junkies, movers and shakers. If you’re interested in joining us, visit www.northern-iowan.org/employment for more information about open positions. Regardless of what you choose to make of your college experience, make it yours. College is a real-life choose-your-own adventure game. You’ll get confused, make missteps, test everything and probably stay up way too late. We look forward to being part of that journey. Good luck, and go Panthers!

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Man from Ireland charged in making Pitt bomb threats Gwenn Barney Assistant News Editor After more than four months of investigation, law enforcement officials have filed an indictment against the man the state attorney general says was behind more than 50 bomb threats at Pitt. At a press conference on Wednesday at the FBI field office in the South Side, David Hickton, United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, announced two indictments against Adam Stuart Busby, 64, of Dublin, Ireland, for emailing bomb threats targeting Pitt, three federal courthouses and a federal officer. “Busby has been charged with emailing numerous, anonymous bomb threats targeting the University of Pittsburgh this past spring,” Hickton said. “The bomb threats caused more than 100 evacuations at Pitt, greatly disrupting the personal and professional lives of students, faculty and employees.” Between Feb. 13 and April 21 of this year, Pitt received 52 individual bomb threats resulting in 136 evacuations of

University buildings. Hickton said that Busby is responsible for the more than 40 emailed threats that were aimed at Pitt’s campus between March 30 and April 21. Most of those threats were sent to media outlets in the area, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Busby was indicted on charges of 17 counts of wire fraud, 16 counts of maliciously conveying false information and two counts of international extortion. A second indictment charged Busby with maliciously conveying false information through the Internet on June 20 and 21 by claiming that bombs were placed at federal courthouses in Erie, Pa., Johnstown, Pa. and Pittsburgh. He was also charged with threatening to assault and murder Hickton while the U.S. attorney was performing his official duties, but no specifics as to how those threats were sent were discussed at the press conference. Hickton said that the maximum sentence for each count of wire fraud is 20 years in prison, the maximum penalty for

maliciously conveying false information is 10 years in prison and the maximum penalty for extortionate threats is two years. Hickton said each felonious count attributed to Busby also carries a maximum $250,000 fine. Busby is currently in custody in Ireland for unrelated charges, which Hickton said he could not comment on at this time. Hickton declined to comment on the details of the investigation, but he did say that Busby had been a suspect since midApril. He added that there are no known connections between Busby and the University that he is currently aware of. “We don’t get into the mind of the criminal,” he said. Chancellor Nordenberg responds Chancellor Mark Nordenberg spoke after Hickton at Wednesday’s press conference, expressing relief and gratitude for the capture of the man behind the spring bomb threats against Pitt. “The timing to reach this point before we begin a new academic year is very bene-

ficial for the University,” Nordenberg said. He said that hiring extra security guards, paying overtime for police officers and procuring the types of equipment to detect explosives all added to the total bill for threat response. He put the financial cost of security and police response to the bomb threats at upward of $300,000. But he also noted the other costs associated with the threats, including lost time for faculty members, lost opportunities for students and time invested by law enforcement organizations other than the Pitt police, as additional, incalculable costs of the threats. “If we were able to calculate those things, the amount would be much larger,” he said. Nordenberg then thanked all those involved in the investigation, including Pitt police, city of Pittsburgh police and the FBI. He also praised students and professors for “their strength and resiliency displayed during a time of crisis.” His praises were echoed by Hickton.

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New head of admissions aims to not just recruit, but retain Joe Chilson Staff Writer As Marc Harding rode the elevator to the second floor of Alumni Hall, he met a high school senior visiting Pitt for the day. Though the young male student slouched unassumingly behind his father as if trying to blend in with the elevator walls, Harding, Pitt’s new chief enrollment officer, extended his hand and a greeting, asking him how old he was and what he thought of the school that Harding himself is just coming to know. The elevator ride lasted but a minute, but in that time, the beginnings of a personal relationship were formed. Marc Harding was hired to head Pitt’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid when the former director of the admission office, Betsy Porter, retired after 26 years of service. As head of the office, Harding will be responsible for attracting and retaining classes of students. Debbie Rupert, senior assistant director of Admissions and Financial Aid, said Harding is already popular with his colleagues. Rupert said that no one grows up dreaming about getting into the field of admissions and financial aid, but for people who find themselves moving in that direction, it can be a very fulfilling job. “Once you do it for a few years, it’s in your blood and you do it forever,” Rupert said. Harding certainly didn’t run around in his Massachusetts backyard as a boy playing

dean of admissions, but he has still forged a decades-long career in the field. Harding attended college at the University of Massachusetts, studying business. His father owned a string of automotive parts stores, and Harding said he originally felt that following in his father’s footsteps might not be such a bad path. But soon, he said, he found out that business wasn’t his passion. He moved to education, where he studenttaught elementary school for a few years, but that, too, didn’t feel quite right. “I think I was sort of denying who my inner me was,” Harding said. So he took a class in communications and discovered a love for interpersonal communication. He expanded on that love by earning a degree in communications with minors in psychology and Chinese from UMass and eventually landed a job in the school’s admissions office. “I got to do aspirational things in terms of helping students succeed,” Harding said, referring to working with students, setting up programming and speaking with people. “All that was just a grand mix to me ... after three years of doing that stuff, I was in love.” Harding spent five years at UMass, moved on to Virginia Tech for three years, the University of South Florida for five and then spent 15 years working at the University of Iowa. This year, he moved his things into an office at Pitt. Harding sees what an admissions office does as cultivating the very unique relation-

ship that exists between students and their university. Harding said that when students set out to look at colleges, they’re shopping — setting out to purchase a product. But after they graduate, he said, something changes. As alumni, students become an extension of the school they chose. They become the product they sought. “That’s always given me pause and reason to take this relationship that we’re trying to build very seriously,” Harding said. So when Harding sets his mind to building a freshman class, he conceptualizes it not as recruiting students, but as creating future alumni. Harding’s goal is not just to persuade potential students to come to Pitt, but to inform them as to what sort of place Pitt is and to seek out the ones that will mesh well into its family. In order to make sure that Pitt’s brand isn’t misrepresented and students who pick Pitt will be a good match, Harding said he likes to encourage campus visits. That way, prospective students and parents have a chance to make connections with students and faculty that share their interests and concerns. “It’s a pretty serious thing, this college choice ... it’s our job to represent the brand as well, if not better, than anyone, but never to misrepresent it, so that students can get the best sense of who we are. It becomes part of their very fabric, because they’ll be alumni someday,” Harding said.

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Rupert, who has worked in admissions for 28 years, agrees with this recruiting style. “We don’t do, like some schools, a hard sell, because not only do we want to recruit them, we want to retain them,” Rupert said. Though retainment isn’t particularly a problem at Pitt, Harding said he realizes that

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Student Health, Counseling Center to be placed in new dorm Michael Ringling Assistant News Editor When Pitt’s new, yet-to-be-named dorm is completed in the fall of 2013, students will no longer need to travel between two buildings to fulfill their mental and physical health needs. The University’s Student Health Services, currently located on the fifth floor of the UPMC-owned Medical Arts Building on Fifth Avenue, and the Counseling Center, now situated on the third floor of the William Pitt Union, will unite to form the Wellness Center, to be located on the second floor of the newly constructed dorm at 121 University Place. The Student Health pharmacy will be moved to the first floor of the new building and will feature street-level access. Pitt spokesman John Fedele said that the building’s estimated cost has remained at $59 million — as originally announced — and will house 559 freshmen on 10 floors when it opens its doors in fall 2013. Marian Vanek, the director of Student Health Services, said that the center’s current location isn’t ideal for its patients. For one, she said, the current center cannot overtly advertise outside of the building, and it also must pay a lease to use the facility. Vanek said she was unauthorized to give spe-

cific figures concerning the cost of the lease but said the new facility will be “cost-saving.” The layout of the Wellness Center will feature 18 examination rooms around a centralized nursing station. Vanek, who contributed to the design of the new facility, said that this was an improvement over the layout of the center at the Medical Arts Building. She said she was particularly excited about the connection between Student Health and the Counseling Center. “Many patients we see in the Health Center have a mental-health component,” Vanek said, adding that the Counseling Center’s inclusion in the Wellness Center will allow for easier travel between the two service providers. “We believe in the mind-body connection,” Vanek said. Teyva Zukor, the director of the Counseling Center since last September, is also excited about the relocation. He said it will make for easier and quicker cross-referrals between the mental and physical departments of the Wellness Center. “Certainly for us, we refer to the Health Center to rule out any physiological cause,” Zukor said, adding that after the relocation, he and his staff “can walk people to the Health Center.” While his department frequently sends

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students over to the Health Center for a physical examination, he said students are also sent his way for various ailments. Oftentimes when students have a panic attack or are dealing with depression, they head

to their medical doctor, Zukor said. But these ailments often involve a mental component, and are therefore better handled by one of the Counseling Center’s two full-time psychiatrists.

Rainbow Alliance files revised complaint regarding transgender policy Em Maier Staff Writer Seamus Johnston and Tricia Dougherty are not backing down in the complaints they launched against the University, both involving the use of Pitt’s facilities for transgender students. Johnston, a former Pitt student, and Dougherty, the Rainbow Alliance president, both filed complaints against Pitt to Pittsburgh’s Commission on Human Relations, which has resulted in back-and-forth reports from both parties as to whether Pitt engaged in discriminatory practices. The commission, after receiving the complaints, launched investigations to determine the validity of the allegations. Typical investigations aim for conciliation but frequently result in litigation and punitive fines, according to Commission Director Charles Morrison. Dougherty filed a complaint with the commission on April 25 of this year, claiming that Pitt enacted “discriminatory practices relating to public accommodation” toward transgender students. The organization objected to the University announcing a policy stating that all transgender students must use gendered facilities according to the sex listed on their birth certificates. The new policy requires that students who wish to use facilities designated for the opposite sex first undergo

sexual reassignment surgery, a costly and invasive procedure. Previously, the University had no stated policy governing the use of gendered facilities, allowing for more flexibility in practice. Pitt had responded with a motion to dismiss the complaint, due to the lack of a specific incident or discriminatory act. Dougherty and others in the community had implied a larger impact by the policies. The Rainbow Alliance tried again, submitting a reworked complaint on July 27, featuring a more developed case as well as arguing with the University’s issues with the lack of identified members. The new complaint cited articles as well as past decisions disputing the need to publicly identify the specific individuals injured and discriminated. The impact Rainbow Alliance referred to had extended all the way to the branch campus of Johnstown, where, in January, Pitt expelled Johnston, a 22-year-old femalebodied pre-op transgender person, for repeated indecent exposure, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct after he showered and changed in a men’s locker room on campus. The FBI subpoenaed Johnston and his partner, Katherine Anne McCloskey, 56, in July regarding the investigation into the string of more than 140 bomb threats the University received from February to April last semester. Johnston has maintained his innocence,

protesting that he was being unfairly targeted due to his status. In response, on April 17, Johnston filed a complaint with the Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission about the University’s policy. Pitt had replied with a motion to dismiss, on the grounds of jurisdiction, because his expulsion occurred at a branch campus. Morrison had confirmed that the commission would have jurisdiction, due to the universal policies the University has in place. An investigation, provided jurisdiction exists, would entail communications with various branches of the offending organization, as well as a more closed means of determining if discrimination occurred. Working with both parties, the commission would try to peacefully resolve the situation. If reconciliation isn’t reached, the matter is pursued, potentially resulting in fines, litigation or hearings. Fines issued are variable. Morrison also suggested that the University could begin dealing with pressure from other universities and schools that have more accommodating and flexible policies. Pitt spokesman Robert Hill said in an email that the school does not comment on pending litigation. “The University has not discriminated against anyone,” he said. Johnston had initially fought the expulsion, but resigned to taking a deal known as Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, or ARD, in which he would go straight to probation without a guilty verdict.

“I’m disappointed not to prove my case in court, but I realized it was taking too long. I could lose the opportunity to bring action against Pitt,” Johnston said. But he continued to work on his discrimination litigation against Pitt, a case that has yet to go to trial. Due to the extensive preparation the case requires, Johnston said he will not be resuming college this fall. Despite the policy obstructions and litigation, Johnston said he still desires to return to his alma mater, even if it takes a court order. “I’m continuing to ﬁght Pitt for my education, despite the dozens of road blocks thrown in my way,” Johnston said. In the midst of the controversy and simmering litigations, the University Senate proposed an ad hoc committee to look into and create policies regarding transgender people at Pitt. However, on May 9, the creation was postponed in order to avoid legal complications regarding the complaints issued against the University. Senate Council President Michael Pinsky had planned to task the committee with examining relevant policies in the state and other institutions, with the goal of forging a new set of policies that would consider the needs of both the transgender population as well as the faculty and students of the university. The University maintained that the committee would not meet while there was ongoing litigation.

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Pitt, CMU still waiting Sikh community finds comfort, for distribution of source of pride after tragedy Dietrich’s donation Gideon Bradshaw Staff Writer

William S. Dietrich II (left) and Chancellor Mark Nordenberg.

Megan Trimble Staff Writer Pitt has yet to receive any payout from the $125 million donation bequeathed to the University by William S. Dietrich II last September, but plans are already well underway for how the funds will be managed once they have been received. Although Dietrich’s donation became operational upon his death in October 2011, funds from the endowment might not arrive at Pitt until early next year. But both ﬁnancial representatives of Dietrich’s estate and Pitt oﬃcials say that the lag in fund dispersal is to be expected with such a sizable contribution. Last fall, the late Pitt alumnus set the record for the largest monetary donation in Pitt’s history when he announced his gift on Sept. 22. The contribution came shortly after Dietrich’s announcement of a $225 million donation to Carnegie Mellon University, and both institutions quickly renamed their largest colleges in honor of the donor’s parents — Pitt christening the Kenneth L. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and CMU announcing the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. However, neither university has received any actual money. N. John Cooper, dean of the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, said the delay isn’t cause for concern. “Any estate on this sort of scale takes some time to set up, and the appropriate foundation for that process is not yet complete,” he said. CMU spokeswoman Teresa Thomas said in an email that the delay in payout from the operational funds also falls in line with her

school’s expectations. Edward J. Grefenstette, chief investment officer of the Dietrich Charitable Trusts, said in an email that while the vehicle for charitable fund dispersal — The Dietrich Foundation — is currently formed, it has yet to be funded. He said that there is, however, a timetable in place for the completion of the funding process. “There are certain regulatory, tax and administrative requirements that must be satisfied before the Dietrich Charitable Trusts can fund The Dietrich Foundation,” Grefenstette said. “We are hopeful that the foundation’s funding can take place around year-end, meaning that the first of the annual distributions to the foundation’s supported organizations will likely begin in the first half of 2013.” Pitt and CMU will receive the funds from the Dietrich Charitable Trusts, which was created from assets generated by the sale of Dietrich Industries in 1996 and will fund The Dietrich Foundation. “It is expected that, in aggregate, approximately 3 percent of the foundation’s total assets will be distributed annually,” Grefenstette said. “The University of Pittsburgh is expected to receive 25 percent of the amount of each annual distribution made by the foundation.” As University officials await payout from the largest gift in Pitt history, they face state and University regulations for the use of funds as endowed gifts. The amount of endowment “income” available for spending is determined by the Investment Committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and is governed by Pennsylvania law. According to the University’s

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When Veenu Ghotra ﬁrst heard about the shooting that claimed the lives of six fellow Sikhs at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., before the gunman fatally shot himself, her ﬁrst reaction was shock. At the time of the attack, Ghotra, 60, who resides in Chandigarh, India, was visiting her son in Milwaukee, only about 30 minutes from where the attack took place. Before the Aug. 5 shooting, she and other family members had planned on going to the Oak Creek temple later in the day. Those plans quickly changed as news of the attack emerged. “Maybe God was protecting us,” Ghotra said quietly, sorrow audible in her voice. Ghotra was one of more than 300 people, both Sikhs and members of other religious and nonreligious communities, who attended a vigil on Aug. 11 at the Pittsburgh Sikh Gurdwara in Monroeville for the six victims of the Oak Creek attack. Along with hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scripture, the service included prayers for the victims, speakers and a candle-lighting ceremony. The vigil began a little after 7:30 p.m. and lasted more

than an hour and a half. The speakers included not only members of the temple’s sangat, or congregation, but also elected oﬃcials and other guests from outside the Sikh community. All expressed a

“The Sihk community has been touched during the last few days by the outpouring of support from the nation.” Chitratan Singh Sethi message of solidarity with the victims and with members of the Sikh faith as a whole. Chitratan Singh Sethi, a member of the executive committee of the gurdwara (a Sikh temple), opened the service in front of the somber audience that had gathered, most of its members sitting cross-legged

facing the altar, which was draped in white cloth embroidered in red. “On Sunday, Aug. 5, we saw the darkest side of mankind,” Sethi said, expressing grief that a place of worship could be the scene of such senseless violence. He went on to praise the Oak Creek police, who responded to the attack — especially Lt. Brian Murphy, the first officer to arrive on the scene. Murphy sustained nine gunshot wounds during the attack. Sethi concluded his remarks by thanking those guests from other religious backgrounds, government officials and the community at large for the solidarity it had shown following the attack. “The Sikh community has been touched during the last few days by the outpouring of support from the nation,” he said. Following Sethi’s remarks, Bhai Sahib Sucha Singh, a priest at the temple, led hymns and a prayer in Gurmukhi, the form of Punjabi in which Sikh scripture is written. Sucha Singh then outlined the history and beliefs of Sikhism, which he said originated in northern India in the 16th century and is distinct from the other religions of the region, such

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Due to renovations, The Book Center relocates to Forbes Avenue Andrew Shull News Editor In order to make renovations to the University Book Center, the campus textbook retailer has been relocated from its Fifth Avenue location to 3601 Forbes Ave. for the fall and spring semesters. The Book Center manager Debra Fyock said the renovations will not affect the bookstore’s ability to carry every required textbook, or affect its delivery to on-campus students. Off-campus residents who or-

dered textbooks online will be able to pick them up at the old location on Fifth Avenue for this semester. The Book Center will also carry required lab materials, such as lab goggles. Fyock said the only major exterior change will be to the Schenley Quad Entrance, which will be moved closer to the Fifth Avenue side of the building. The interior of the building will have an entirely new look. “We will have two major checkout areas set up to accommodate the increased volume of customers during rush. Way-

finding signage and computers strategically placed throughout the store will help our customers navigate the space with ease,” Fyock said. The renovated store will include places to study, a coffee shop, new technology and a textbook “guru” to answer questions. Fyock said the remodeled bookstore will also be able to hold after-hours events, such as book signings and department showcase events. The Book Center is expected to be fully renovated and reopened by the fall of 2013.

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Uptown Girls: Longtime residents make grocery their home

Dolores has lived with her sister, Rose Essa, in this home since 1953. “We’re inseparable, we have never stayed apart for too long,” Rose said.

Dolores David stands in her temporary living space that once used to be her and her husband’s grocery store. She recently broke her femur and consequently cannot climb the stairs to her beautiful second-level apartment. She contemplated making her stairs handicap accessible, but she didn’t want to “sign oﬀ ” her independence, as she put it. Dolores packing pita for her nephew, who owns the store across the street. Dolores comes from a family of grocers. Her parents were Syrian immigrants who came to Pittsburgh and opened a grocery store, and her husband was also a grocer. She moved in with him when she was 19 to help run the store. She recalls there being three other grocery stores on the street when she and her husband ran their store, but now Uptown is a very quiet and weathered neighborhood. She hopes the new lofts and apartments being built nearby will help revitalize the area.

A photo of Dolores in 1975. She recalled having entertained many guests at her home above the grocery store in her earlier years. She would sing in Arabic while a band accompanied her performance.

Summer time crimes may bring school time repercussions Gideon Bradshaw Staff Writer Even students who got away from campus over the summer could still find themselves in hot water with the University if they broke the law — depending on the nature of their crimes. The University’s Code of Conduct meticulously outlines students’ rights, the procedures for disciplinary action against University students and the composition of the authorities that hear disciplinary cases. These include the Hearing Officers, the Judicial Board and the University Review Board. Even when students are away from school on holidays or breaks, the rules still apply.

This is because the code doesn’t just concern itself with the actions of students that affect their academics or occur on University property. Instead, it includes provisions that allow the University to punish students for infractions that may fall outside Pitt’s boundaries. Page 7 of the Code of Conduct lists three broad categories of offenses for which the University may discipline a student, even when he or she commits them outside the bounds of the University campus. One of these categories deals with infractions considered “grave offenses,” which University spokesman John Fedele said may include alleged serious felonies committed by students.

“Fortunately, because of our generally well-behaved students, this is rarely invoked,” he said in an email. According to the same section of the code, other offenses for which students may face disciplinary procedures from the University, even when they commit them off-campus, include those that endanger fellow students or other Pitt affiliates and offenses students commit while within the jurisdiction of the Pitt police. Fedele said that this area includes everything within 500 yards of any property owned or controlled by the University. Himanshu Taranekar, who will begin the Master of Business Administration program at Pitt’s Katz Graduate School of

Business this coming semester, believes that a process to enforce the Code of Conduct is important to students, even when they’re not in class.. “As a student, you have a responsibility of how to conduct yourself,” he said. Taranekar also said the code could promote a sense of accountability but that the University should tailor its reaction to violations to the behavior it sees from the student population. If there are frequent serious offenses, the University ought to discipline students more harshly, Taranekar said,

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X Marks the Spot: Students discover Colbert’s hidden treasure Gwenn Barney Assistant News Editor This past summer, four Pitt engineering students won comedian Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Fun Pack Challenge. The grand prize? Stephen Colbert will visit Pitt. To win the challenge, the students created their own Super PAC and went on a adventure to recover a 101-year-old piece of treasure. This is the story of the treasure hunt. For the Pitt treasure hunters, the journey of a lifetime began with a single moment of serendipity. Pitt engineering graduate student Dan Stough turned on his TV and watched “The Colbert Report.” Usually, Stough said, he doesn’t have time to watch the satirical political show, but on this particular March evening, he happened to ﬁnd the time. And on this episode, Stephen Colbert happened to be introducing a contest. Stough watched as Colbert told viewers about the Colbert Super PAC Fun Pack, a package of politicalthemed activities that featured a treasure hunt for an enigmatic silver turtle. “When I saw the Super PAC Fun

Pack I thought, you know this is probably something that would be a good waste of time for everybody, and so I bought it immediately, the same day,” Stough said. Once the PAC package arrived, ﬁlled with maps, clues and directions for how to begin his very own Super PAC, Stough sent out a mass email seeking help from his fellow Pitt students in ﬁnding the treasure. Three fellow Pitt engineering students jumped on the opportunity. Recent Pitt graduates Daniela Aizpitarte and Ben Zaczek, along with graduate engineering student Justine Buchman, joined Stough in his quest for the silver turtle. Stough put all the maps and clues included in the Super PAC Fun Pack onto a digital dropbox so that all four team members could work on the clues simultaneously. With a decoder ring, a direction book for how to set up a Super PAC and a map of the U.S., including pictures and colored arrows denoting routes through various states, the group set out to discover the location of their treasure. On a pure hunch, Stough decided to look at the source code of the contest’s web page for a hidden clue. He

discovered a message. “Read everything carefully,” it advised. “If you read through these things very carefully,” Buchman said, pointing to the map and contest’s directions, “That’s when you can ﬁnd the weird stuﬀ.” In reading through the rule book for creating a Super PAC, the team discovered a portion where letters were strangely bolded or italicized. The bold and italicized letters spelled out the nonsensical phrase “Massachusetts Upper Right.” Stough used the decoder ring included in the pack to discover the meaning of a set of numbers on the bottom right of the U.S. map. The number code translated to “over the land of the free.” On the bottom left corner of the map, Zaczek noticed strange symbols written on the body of a dragon. Buchman took a picture of the symbols and, using Google Goggles, a picture-based web-search engine, learned they were Masonic symbols that translated to “something.” The group noticed strange breaks in the border surrounding the rule book Colbert sent them. They suspected that the breaks were Braille or Morse Code. After trying

to translate for both, they came up empty on that clue. At the beginning of April, Colbert also aired a clue on his show to launch the competition. He ﬂashed a multilayered series of horizontal and vertical lines on the screen during his broadcast. The Pitt team realized that the colors of the lines on screen matched the colors of the arrows printed on the treasure map, but they weren’t sure what to make of the connection. “The codes we had in the kit, we had mostly ﬁgured out by the very end of April,” Stough said. “But we didn’t know exactly what they all meant.” Soon, the month of April came to a close, just as the team members found themselves stalled in their ability to determine any more clues. Stough headed abroad for a few weeks while his teammates began summer jobs. The treasure hunt was pushed to the back burner. While on hiatus, the team kept an eye on their competition — the people in ownership of the 999 other Super PAC Fun Packs. The team took particular interest in a group of Penn State students also working to solve the puzzle. Stough and company said the Penn State group

was putting a lot of effort into the challenge, posting on their Tumblr blog page that it had hired a lawyer to help manage and develop the Super PAC. “What was on this kid’s Tumblr was crazy,” Aizpitarte said. “He was saying 200 people showed up to one of their meetings to figure this out and we were like ‘oh my god’ because it’s just the four of us.” On June 9, after a month-long break, the Pitt treasure hunters found their way back on track when a new clue was sent out from “The Colbert Report” via email. “Their plan from the start was to start giving people clues every month or so if no one found it, because they wanted someone to find it before the fall,” Stough said. The new clue was a classic puzzle: a word search. In completing the word search, a handful of letters weren’t circled. These letters spelled out: “The answer you are seeking is written in the stars.” “The day after is when I had, like an epiphany that it had to do with stars and the flag,” Stough said. This realization kicked the team’s problem solving into hyper

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Ryan’s fiscal vision would reshape the nation David Lauter and Lisa Mascaro MCT Campus WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed federal budget — now starring as the centerpiece of the presidential campaign as he joins the Republican ticket — would reshape American government, achieving long-sought conservative goals and reversing an 80-year path of larger, more expensive federal programs. Under Ryan’s plan, which has passed the Republican-controlled House twice in slightly diﬀerent versions, the Internal Revenue Service would tax the wealthiest Americans less, but many of the poorest ones more; Medicare would be transformed; Medicaid would be cut by about a third, and all functions of government other than those health programs, Social Security and the military would shrink to levels not seen since the 1930s. Mitt Romney has made a point

of saying that he’s running on his own budget, not Ryan’s, but even before choosing him as a running mate, he had adopted much of Ryan’s plan. Romney’s tax plan would reduce tax rates by less, but closely resembles Ryan’s, and so do his plans for Medicare, Medicaid and other safety-net programs. The Ryan plan would not balance the federal budget for another 28 years at least, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Oﬃce. That means the federal debt would continue to rise. That’s partly because the tax cuts take eﬀect right away while the Medicare cuts kick in later, as people now 55 hit retirement age. It’s also partly because Ryan’s proposed tax cuts considerably outweigh even his ambitious spending reductions. Ryan himself concedes that his plan would not balance the budget this decade, predicting it could be balanced by the “mid-to-early 2020s” because his plan would ignite rapid economic growth. Like

his onetime mentor, Jack Kemp, the 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee, Ryan argues that the key to economic growth is not balancing the budget, but lowering tax rates. “Growth is the key to fiscal sustainability — and low rates are the key to growth,” he said. But even if low tax rates spur the economy — a debatable point among economists — a balanced budget will depend on wiping enough tax breaks off the books to offset the new tax cuts. In the more than two years since his budget was unveiled, Ryan has not specified any tax breaks he would eliminate. Independent analyses have shown that offsetting the tax cuts would require changing things such as the mortgage interest deduction, the tax exclusion for employer-financed health insurance or other popular tax preferences widely used by middle-income households. For any of these changes to take place, of course, Romney and Ryan

would have to win the election and probably carry a Republican Senate with them. Republicans hope the Ryan budget will propel their campaign forward, grabbing the mantle of “change” away from President Barack Obama. Democrats fervently believe Ryan’s plan will become a major weapon for their side. Medicare Ryan would shift Medicare from a system in which everyone gets the same set of beneﬁts, paid for by tax funds, to one in which the government would give each senior citizen a ﬁxed amount of money. When people now 55 or younger reach retirement, they would be given the option of using that “premium support” payment, or voucher, to buy private insurance policies or enroll in Medicare. The amount of the payment would vary from one region of the country to another, depending on the cost of private insurance plans.

In some places, at least in the early years, the premium-support payment might cover the full cost of Medicare, but there’s no guarantee of that. Ryan would also gradually lift the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 by 2034. Supporters say the premiumsupport approach would hold down the federal government’s spending on health care, since seniors would have an incentive to shop for the cheapest plans and competition among private health plans would push costs down. But critics argue that elderly sick people aren’t likely to be good comparison shoppers and could easily be misled by complicated insurance programs. Detractors also say health insurers would have a huge incentive to create low-cost plans for younger, healthier seniors, leaving Medicare with the oldest, sickest patients and driving up its costs. Medicare beneﬁciaries have av-

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Getting to know SGB members Election year will Aaron Stier-Cohen Staff Writer The Student Government Board are some of the most visible leaders on campus and hold the purse strings to the seven ﬁgure sums of money allocated to students. And while they might be busy student leaders, The Pitt News wanted to start the year by looking at the personalities behind the positions. James Landreneau Position: President Year: Senior Major: Chemical Engineering Originally from Wexford, Pennsylvania Landreneau was introduced to student government as a sophomore interning for past Board member David Gau. But it was this past year that he really got involved. “I was asked by former SGB President Molly Stieber to run with her slate as a Board member,” Landreneau said in an email. “I was extremely excited to serve my fellow students.” Fun fact: Landreneau’s parents had a thing for the letter J. Each of his siblings’ names begins with the letter, and with seven of them, his family tree begins to look like a Dr. Seuss book. “My siblings, in order, are: Jerome, John, Joshua, Jordan, Jude and Jackson.” Landreneau said. “[It] can get pretty confusing for my parents!” Megan Carlene McGrath Position: President Pro Tempore Year: Senior Major: Economics, minor in political science McGrath started her career in Pitt politics by joining an SGB committee when she was a sophomore. “I kept thinking of projects I would like to work on if I was on board,” McGrath said. “I wanted the chance to actually work on those things, so I decided to run.” Drink of choice: “Blue Moons, Wednesdays at Hemingway’s.” Olivia Armstrong Position: Board Member Year: Senior Major: Health and Physical Activity Armstrong said she reluctantly ran for SGB after originally shying away from the added work and responsibility that the position would bring. “I tend to say yes to everything and I was trying to not spread myself

too thin,” Armstrong said. “I usually prioritize extra curricular activities over my academic work, which is a terrible habit.” Weirdest food ever tried: “The weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten is a tie between alligator and escargot,” Armstrong said. During one of her yearly trips to Sanibel Island, Florida she ordered fried alligator at a local restaurant. “It was pretty much just chewy chicken.” Alex Murdoch Position: Business Manager Year: Senior Major: Accounting Murdoch didn’t set out to get involved in SGB, but when he finally decided to run he didn’t tell Megan McGrath, his friend since 4th grade. “She had been very open about running and I decided to keep quiet for strategic reasons,” Murdoch said. Secret study spot: At the end of the walkway between Towers and Posvar there is an elevator. On the fourth floor of that elevator there is a table with five of six chairs. “No one is ever there and there are plenty of outlets,” Murdoch said. Julie Hallinan Position: Board Member Year: Senior Major: Economics, Leadership, Public and Professional Writing and Political Science After Hallinan saw the difference she could make while serving as vice president of her high school senior class, she arrived at Pitt with student government aspirations. But like many new students she spent her freshman year getting her bearings. Hallinan got her start in student government as a sophomore. She served on the environmental committee after applying to two chair positions and being turned down for both. As a junior Hallinan decided to run for SGB. Cartoon and cereal of choice: Hallinan said she used to love Lucky Charms, Recess and Pepper Ann but to this day still loves Spongebob Squarepants. “It will be on mute while I’m doing my homework,” Halinan said. Natalie Rothenberger Position: Board Member Year: Senior Major: Politics-Philosophy and Theatre Arts As a freshman activities Rothenberger and her roommate picked up

flyers about SGB and decided to go to public meeting to check it out. At that meeting Rothenberger met past board member Molly Stieber “She really helped introduce me to how SGB works and all that it does for campus,” Rothenberger said “I became instantly interested and was fortunate to be on Allocations committee and from there my passion to continue staying involved grew.” Hobbie: Rothenberger was active in the music department at her high school and was a member of show choir, performed in musicals, and competed in choir competitions. The first club she joined on campus was the Women’s Choral Ensemble. Gordon Louderback Position: Board Member Year: Senior Major: Civil and Environmental Engineering Louderback started getting involved with SGB during his freshman year, through his involvements with the Pitt Association for Leadership and Success. “We worked on different campus projects which naturally coincided with SGB’s efforts,” he said. “I worked closely with James Landreneau while we were both in PALS” Best memory with Pitt sports: “Definitely the triple overtime basketball win against WVU my freshman year at the Pete! There has been a lot of great experiences but that stands out.” Zoe Samudzi Position: Board Members Year: Junior Major: African Studies, Global Studies and Political Science Zoe wasn’t involved in student government in high school and she didn’t know much about SGB during her freshman year. But during her sophomore year, James Landreneau approached her about running with him and his slate. “I’ve learned a lot about negotiating and compromising with people whose interests and personalities differ from mine,” she said. “That’ll undoubtedly be useful in the future.” Weirdest thing ever eaten: Mopane worms “It’s not weird, but it’s definitely uncommon in America. My family is Zimbabwean, and in some parts of southern Africa, people eat mopane worms. They’re a great source of protein, but definitely not my favorite food.”

feature highly contested local, national races Andrew Shull News Editor

Save the date: Tuesday, Nov. 6, is Election Day, and for a number of college students, this will be the first presidential election in which they can participate. But this year also features an interesting undercard of national elections that shouldn’t come as an afterthought. Take a look at our quick-hit guide to the 2012 elections in play in Pittsburgh. Presidential: President Barack Obama will be the first incumbent to be outspent in a presidential election — and you’ll find that fact on the fundraising materials he’s sending out to his supporters. While Pennsylvania has been consistently blue in recent history, look for the president’s challenger, former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to try to put PA in play with his sizable war chest. His message will be almost entirely focused on the economy, and his pitch to the American people is that Romney has the experience and knowhow to create jobs. His pick for a running mate, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, reinforces this economy-first focus. Ryan made a name for himself as a fiscal conservative who authored Republican answers to Obama’s budgets. But Obama has stayed consistently above Romney in the polls, and the president will portray the former governor as an out-of-touch, super-wealthy businessman who’s traded American jobs for quick profits. The wild card in Pennsylvania will be the effects of the Republicansponsored voter ID law, which opponents say was a votersuppression effort to keep key Obama-supporting demographics away from the polls. Senate: Incumbent Democrat Sen.

Bob Casey faces his first reelection bid after defeating Rick Santorum in 2006, sending the social conservative into obscurity, never to be heard from again. His challenger, Republican Tom Smith, faces a huge obstacle in his bid to unseat Casey — a lack of name recognition. Casey was already well known in the state when he ran against Santorum, as his father was a former Pennsylvania governor. Until receiving the Republican nomination, Smith was only involved in local politics, prior to which he worked in the coal industry. To win, Smith will have to sell Casey as Obama’s surrogate, and hope the president will be unpopular enough for the strategy to work. House of Representatives: Hans Lessmann, an eye doctor from the Forest Hills suburb of Pittsburgh, is challenging Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle, the incumbent, for the 14th congressional district of Pennsylvania, which includes Pittsburgh and a few surrounding boroughs. But Lessmann has a steep hill to climb. Doyle holds one of the safest positions in the country and has yet to face re-election bid that has been close. Doyle won nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2010, and there isn’t much reason to think this year will be any different. Although Pitt’s campus falls in the 14th district, another election of note — in the 12th Congressional District — involves a large portion of western Pennsylvania. After recent redistricting, two democratic incumbents, Mark Critz and Jason Altmire, squared off, both seeking re-election. Critz, the more conservative of the two, won the nomination by a small margin and now leads Keith Rothfus, whom Altmire defeated in 2010, in the polls. Critz represents a very specific brand of local politician: a social conservative with strong ties to labor, leading him to break with his party more often than other democrats.

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Study claims buying and reselling BOMBS as opposed to renting textbooks can save students more monrey Andrew Shull News Editor Behind tuition and room and board, textbooks are the third largest expense for college students. But on-campus bookstores aren’t the only option for students seeking required reading. Outside of the University Book Center, there are book exchanges, online retailers and textbook rental agencies all competing for students’ money in the course-material market. And while renting might seem like the best deal, one textbook comparison website contends that buying and reselling books can be a more cost-effective option than borrowing. Jeff Sherwood, CEO of textbook-comparison website Bigwords.com, did a study of the 1,000 most-searched textbooks on his website. He found that, in general, if a book is bought at the lowest price available and then sold at the highest sell-back price offered, the money-saving results of the buy/sell method beat those of renting 95 percent of the time. Following that model, Sherwood estimates that students can save, on average, $1,000 annually. “We’re turning the third-highest cost for students to something that isn’t even that much of a consideration,” he said. Sherwood said that finding students the best deal is his business model at Bigwords.com. He receives a commission when a retailer receives a customer from his website, whether the book in question is bought, sold or rented. “Our job and goal is to show students the cheapest way to get their textbooks,” he said. And while buying low and selling high seems to be most cost-effective, Sherwood said that renting can definitely be more economical than other methods. He said that the low overhead associated with online retailers generally makes them a better deal than brick-and-mortar retailers, stores that physically

occupy their retail space. Taking advantage of the library is another way to save money. Rush Miller, the executive administrator of the University Library System, said that although the library can’t help students circumvent buying textbooks, it has more than 6.5 million books available in its collection. Miller went on to say that

“There have been a number of large-scale eﬀorts to digitize and make available for free books that are in the public domain.” Rush Miller the library makes an effort to be as convenient as possible for students. “Everything we can do can be found on the website,” he said. “We try to be where you are, where the students are.” In addition to requesting books that are physically in stock, Miller discussed another way students can get the reference materials they’re looking for. “There have been a number of large-scale efforts to digitize and make available for free books that are in the public domain,” he said. Of the virtually millions of books that are free online, Miller pointed to any book whose copyright has expired — which includes books printed before 1923 as well as more recent books whose copyrights simply haven’t been renewed. The public domain refers to books that are no longer the in-

tellectual property of a person or a corporation. That means everybody has the right to view centuries of primary source materials that no longer belong to their authors. For classes that require reading old original source documents — such as literature, history and philosophy — public domain documents allow students to read original texts without purchasing countless paperbacks. Other documents, such as government funded research, can be viewed for free, as well. Miller said that the Pitt Library System has been involved in this process as well, digitizing thousands of books, journal articles and other documents from Pitt’s collections. Those are then indexed in a way that allows students to both search for and read these books online. But Debra Fyock, manager of the University Book Center, said that none of these alternatives can adequately replace the oncampus book store. “We are the only resource for all of the required and recommended coursework for every class,” she said in an email. She said that The Book Center is conscious of the cost of textbooks and tries to keep costs down. The Book Center is the only store guaranteed to have the right textbook available. Fyock went on to say that The Book Center has options for students to rent course materials as well as buy and sell them, and offers eBooks in addition to hard copies. She also pointed to the store’s return policy and year-round buy-back offerings as reasons to keep business on campus. Her tip for saving money was buying and selling at the right times. She said that selling books at the beginning of a semester is the most cost-effective option, because this is when The Book Center has in all of its orders. “We are very mindful of student budgets and endeavor to have lower prices for new and used textbooks when compared to other brick-and-mortar stores,” she said.

“The Pitt community across the board responded to this threat in an exemplary fashion,” Hickton said. “We could not have solved the crime without their help. The stories of the way the Pitt community came together — from students helping each other to the tips and assistance we received — have moved me deeply.” Nordenberg said reaching this point in the investigation was not only important for the University and the city, but also for society at large, which continues to see an increasing number of cyber attacks. Gary Douglas Perdue, special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh division of the FBI, agreed with Nordenberg on the increasing seriousness of cyber attacks. “Criminal activity, facilitated through the use of computer technology, is an increasing problem for law enforcement,” he said. “The FBI is committed to meet this challenge.” He said the Bureau is expanding its cyber capabilities to keep up with this channel of crime. In recent months, law enforcement officials said much of the difficulty in tracking the perpetrator was due to his use of sophisticated anonymizing servers that obscured the location from which the threats were emailed. During the press conference, Nordenberg also addressed the University’s decision to rescind the $50,000 reward for information about the threatener in return for an end to the threats. “Whenever there was a difficult decision to be made, I listened attentively and respectfully to the advice of law enforcement officials and my own senior staff,” Nordenberg said. “But in the end, the decision was mine to make.” He said that a first offer to end the bomb threats in return for removal of the reward, sent on April 10, was crudely crafted and included factual errors and was therefore not taken seriously. However, a similar email offer on April 20, this time promising a 24-hour reprieve in bomb threats to prove the author of the email was in fact the threatener, led Nordenberg to make the decision to remove the reward. “It’s a threshold question of whether you ever respond to threatening messages of this

type,” Nordenberg said. Police chief says investigation continues Pitt Police Chief Tim Delaney said that despite Busby’s indictment, the bomb threats investigation is not yet closed. “There are other elements here,” Delaney said, citing Busby’s current status in a foreign country as one such element. “All the questions have not been answered.” During the press conference, Nordenberg and Hickton gave special thanks to the Pitt police for their efforts in responding to the formerly daily bomb threats. Delaney said that the bomb threats “stretched [the police force] to the max,” but that the continued support from other law enforcement agencies, including city police and the FBI, along with thoughts of keeping the Pitt community safe kept a tired police force motivated. “The kids were always our main interest,” Delaney said. “I have 28,000 kids. They’re my children and I need to be responsible for them.” Delaney said he was especially impressed with the way the Pitt community came together in response to the bomb threats. “The more they threatened us, the more people got involved,” Delaney said. “We had one common enemy — all of us — It doesn’t happen that often.” YouTube threateners indicted In addition to announcing the Busby indictment, Hickton also announced the indictment of two Ohio men in a separate threat made against Pitt via YouTube in April. Alexander Waterland of Loveland, Ohio, and Brett Hudson, of Hillsboro, Ohio, are both charged with engaging in a conspiracy targeting the computer system of the University. A group using the YouTube username AnonOperative13 claimed in a YouTube video posted on April 26 to have hacked into Pitt’s computer system and downloaded personal information about Pitt students, employees and alumni. Hickton said that both Waterland and Hudson will be arraigned in federal court in Pittsburgh later this month. The law prescribes a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both if the two men are found guilty.

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DIETRICH Pitt has yet to receive any payout from the $125 million donation bequeathed to the University by William S. Dietrich II last September, but plans are already well underway for how the funds will be managed once they have been received. Although Dietrich’s donation became operational upon his death in October 2011, funds from the endowment might not arrive at Pitt until early next year. But both financial representatives of Dietrich’s estate and Pitt officials say that the lag in fund dispersal is to be expected with such a sizable contribution. Last fall, the late Pitt alumnus set the record for the largest monetary donation in Pitt’s history when he announced his gift on Sept. 22. The contribution came shortly after Dietrich’s announcement of a $225 million donation to Carnegie Mellon University, and both institutions quickly renamed their largest colleges in honor of the donor’s parents — Pitt christening the Kenneth L. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and CMU announcing the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. However, neither university has received any actual money. N. John Cooper, dean of the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, said the delay isn’t cause for concern. “Any estate on this sort of scale takes some time to set up, and the appropriate foundation for that process is not yet complete,” he said. CMU spokeswoman Teresa Thomas said in an email that the delay in payout from the operational funds also falls in line with her school’s expectations. Edward J. Grefenstette, chief investment officer of the Dietrich Charitable Trusts, said in an email that while the vehicle for charitable fund dispersal — The Dietrich Foundation — is currently formed, it has yet to be funded. He said that there is, however, a timetable in place for the completion of the funding process. “There are certain regulatory, tax and administrative requirements that must be satisfied before the Dietrich Charitable Trusts can fund The Dietrich Foundation,” Grefenstette said. “We are hopeful that the foundation’s funding can take place around year-end, meaning that the first of the annual distributions to the foundation’s supported organizations will likely begin in the first half of 2013.” Pitt and CMU will receive the funds from the Dietrich Charitable Trusts, which was created from assets generated by the sale of Dietrich Industries in 1996 and will fund The

Dietrich Foundation. “It is expected that, in aggregate, approximately 3 percent of the foundation’s total assets will be distributed annually,” Grefenstette said. “The University of Pittsburgh is expected to receive 25 percent of the amount of each annual distribution made by the foundation.” As University officials await payout from the largest gift in Pitt history, they face state and University regulations for the use of funds as endowed gifts. The amount of endowment “income” available for spending is determined by the Investment Committee of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and is governed by Pennsylvania law. According to the University’s Endowed Fund Reports, which are published online, the University of Pittsburgh Endowment Fund, which consists of nearly 2,000 individual funds and has market value in excess of $2.5 billion as of June 30, 2011, is comprised of endowed gifts that provide financial support for scholarships, fellowships, faculty chairs, instruction and other important University programs and services. By definition, an endowed gift is intended to provide the University with a permanent source of funding by investing the principal amount of the gift and making available a portion of the income it generates for use by the University. Thomas said that Dietrich’s gift increases CMU’s endowment in a way that will support future academic initiatives across the university, including undergraduate and graduate programs, scholarship, artistic creation and research, but that it should be noted that the CMU endowment will not immediately increase by the amount of Dietrich’s donation. “Rather, the Dietrich Foundation will oversee the Dietrich gift and will make annual distributions to the CMU endowment in perpetuity, which will increase the CMU endowment over time,” she said. While a timeline for the reception of the money remains unclear, Pitt intends to move forward with plans for the donation. Cooper noted that under the terms of the gift, the money will be used to create endowments to support activities in the Dietrich school, at least for the first few years of its dispersal. Cooper said he will present a plan over the next year to the provost for the use of the funds to be distributed to Pitt, and that the plan will focus on three key areas: undergraduate scholarships, endowed chairs and graduate fellowships. “Using the funds in this way is an investment in excellence,” Cooper

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New West Oakland community center provides social hub Pat McAteer Staff Writer At Friendship Community Presbyterian Church, the idea of building a community center in its West Oakland neighborhood arose after members of the congregation recognized a need for community outreach in a largely forgotten sector of Pittsburgh. After three years of planning, the church opened its new community center, The Corner, on Robinson Street last spring. Those involved with the creation of The Corner say it will benefit Pitt students and West Oakland residents alike by providing services that fit individual needs. Pitt English Professor Mark Kramer, a member of Friendship Community Church and one of the leaders in the push to create The Corner, said the new venue tailors its programs to members of the community. “The idea here is to engage people socially and at a level to fit their own personal needs,” Kramer said. “We wanted to have a place to express concerns and make plans for organizing activities.” For Kramer, the opening of The Corner is a tribute to the hardworking members of Friendship Community Church. According to Kramer, the planning process began after the church hired a consulting firm and surveyed more than 50 people in the area, including local residents and representatives from institutions such as Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, Carlow and UPMC. The survey gauged the interest level of the community in issues affecting area FROM PAGE 12

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but if infractions are minor and infrequent, the response from the University should be to prescribe counseling and to examine the underlying reasons — such as family or financial problems — for students’ behavior. Discussing the University’s policy for offenses that occur off campus and for which students already face legal consequences, Molly McKain, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, ex-

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residents. When church organizers received the results of the survey, Kramer said they decided on a variety of needs to focus on in the neighborhood, including afterschool programs for local high school students and job skills training programs. Since opening its doors, The Corner has served as a site for neighborhood council meetings, as well as a provider of services for area residents. Kramer said The Corner provides the opportunity for Pitt students, members of the Friendship congregation and local residents to interact — especially during the renovation of the property. Rahul Joyce, a junior accounting major at Pitt, said in an email that

his experience painting and cleaning The Corner before its opening allowed him to meet West Oakland residents and form friendships with other Pitt students. “It was very fulﬁlling to know that the local community will be able to enjoy an environment that I had a part in helping clean up,” Joyce said. Joyce’s involvement in the project began after taking Kramer’s Seminar in Composition class during his freshman year. The class focused on community service, a subject he is passionate about. “It was wonderful to meet and make new friends from Pitt and with residents around West Oakland who had very similar inter-

pressed skepticism. “I would say that if the government has already prosecuted [the offending student] to the fullest extent of the law, then I don’t see why the University needs to step in and punish [him or her] again,” McKain said. While McKain stressed that she could see the reason the University would discipline students who commit violent offenses or those caught with illegal drugs, she speculated that there were few such offenders on campus. Most Pitt students, she believes, do nothing more serious than drink underage.

Similarly, Fedele stressed that Pitt has not witnessed many cases for which it has needed to punish students during the holidays and breaks. “Students who have matriculated at the University are subject to the code,” he said. “[ Judicial Board] filings while on summer or holiday break are somewhat uncommon, but can and do occur.” Hopefully, though, students will be too busy to find themselves in trouble. “I probably wouldn’t have time to get arrested even if I tried,” McKain said.

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Fresh, organic food at heart of families’ stands at farmer’s market Pennsylvania and Ohio. In a single week, the Mott family now attends numerous markets, delivering their fresh, organic, local produce Seven years ago, a Southern California couple to consumers and restaurants alike. left suburbia and bought a farm in Ohio. The Intrigued by the plurality of culinary ophusband didn’t come from an agricultural tions presented by food growing, the Motts background — he hadn’t been raised on eggs eventually began to vary their selection by from the henhouse or milk from the pasture. adding more exotic Asian plants, influenced Jeff Mott, 45, and his wife, Shelley, began by Shelley’s background — her family had a new type of farm business, one built on a sold vegetables in Chicago. The two now manageable scale. This enabled their fam - hawk Italian, heirloom and Asian vegetables ily to utilize and appreciate the farm while and encourage clients to explore and try remaining capable of traveling and relaxing new flavors. during the short off-season, which lasts from “I want to do as muc h local as possible. November to February. And their contempo- We have an ethnic niche, and it’s what I love,” rary agrarian venture is not an uncommon said Jeff Mott, who has attended the local one; dedicated small-scale food growers keep Pittsburgh markets for the past three years. farmers markets well-stocked from Seattle The transaction betw een farmer and to Pittsburgh, offering fresh produce to ur- eater extends past the kitc hen table in the banites for the majority of the year. case of Jen Lea, 23, one of Mott ’s regular The Mott family began its business b y clients. A graduate student at Pitt ’s School planting a wide variety of greens, from the of Public Health, Lea began helping out on commonplace sugar snap pea and S wiss Wednesdays at the Motts ’ stand at Phipps chard to the more unusual eight -ball zuc- Conservatory. There, she converses with the chini and dandelion greens. Jeff Mott focused patrons and points out interesting factsand on the concept of permaculture, a type of uses for the wide variety of products laid out ecological engineering based on developing on the table. sustainable farms and settlements modeled “I much prefer farmers markets and local after natural ecosystems. The orchard on his food. The taste of the lettuces — it’s one of land is a mix of fruit trees and berry bushes those things that you almost have to taste to designed to attract a variety of pollinators. believe it, but it’s such a difference,” Lea said. As the farm grew in production, its dis - “The flavors are phenomenal — cooking tribution network grew to inc lude both what’s in season, it’s very natural.”

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Lea said she is one of many who have become taken with the concept of “Slow Food,” a movement started in Ital y in 1986 that promotes a fresh, clean, wholesome attitude toward agriculture, according to Slow Food International’s web page. Slow Food puts a focus on eating seasonally, primarily through small-scale producers with moderate prices. Lea took the theory to heart, buying seasonal produce, tweaking favorite recipes to include her new purchases or freezing others to last throughout the winter. As indicated by Jeff Mott and Lea, not all agrarians are from an agricultural background. Farmers market vendors such as the Clarion River Organic, a co -op from Sligo, Pa., often build lasting relationships with their buyers, whose interest gro ws into a greater involvement with farming. Suc h stands will offer “shares” to interested consumers, allowing families to receive a weekly portion of farm goods that typically contains an assortment of recently harvested produce. Aubrey and Justin Hillman are two such people. “We really appreciate the local produce, which we get here and at the community gardens,” Justin Hillman, 29, said. And the tradeoff allows farmers and urbanites to enter a s ymbiotic relationship, as the farmers receive payment early in the season and the consumers receive fresh food, as well as an education about the qualities

and flavors of what they’re ingesting. “For us, it’s the community aspect, supporting the local farms. Personally, I like to know where it’s coming from. I can talk to the farmers, find out what has been happening lately,” Aubrey Hillman agreed. Justin Hillman had not been raised on local produce. While his wife had gro wn up working on an orchard, he experienced something new upon trying fresh fruits and vegetables and said he noticed a remarkable difference. The couple has made plans to become farmers themselves, but for no w they are simply maintaining a small garden and studying the practices and economics of farming. Mark Haines, 23, of W est Michigan, joined the network only a few short w eeks ago on the advice of some friends. Acting as a porter for Clarion Ri ver Organics, which includes numerous Amish farms, he grew more involved with the ideolog y of his clients. Despite his short time w orking with the co-op, he’s become mindful of what he ingests daily. “I began eating more healthil y, staying away from processed foods and the like. At some point, you really want to know what’s in your food — and for that, you need to get to the source. There may be things you don’t like about your food, and that ’s not on the

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Recent legislation requires photo identification at polls Student ID and drivers license fullfil requirements Pat McAteer Staff Writer While the Penn sylvania Department of Transportation estimates around 7 50,000 statewide voters lack a valid form of identification, Pitt officials say ID cards issued by the University are considered valid under the state’s new voter ID law. Although opponents of the v oter ID law are concerned it w ould disenfranchise eligible voters who do not ha ve an appropriate form of identification, Pitt students with University ID cards should have no problem voting in the November presidential election. Pitt spokesman Robert Hill said in an email that because University ID cards include expiration dates, the state considers them a valid form of ID. The Pennsylvania law requires that voters present a valid form of photographic identification every time they enter their polling location. In addition, the identification card — issued by a government agency, a state university or one of the common wealth’s nursing homes — must be have a visible expiration date. Critics of the law, including Democrats, have accused state Republicans of attempting to suppress the vote of elderly citizens,

minorities, disabled people and the lo w income bracket of the electorate that typically vote Democrat by limiting accessibility to valid forms of identiﬁcation. Proponents of the law said that it ’s necessary in order to prevent voter fraud. In recent days, this ideological battle over Voter ID has fallen into the courtroom. This month, Pennsyvania Judge Robert Simpson upheld the Commonwealth’s right to require voter ID at polls. “Petitioners did not establish . . . that disenfranchisement was immediate or inevi table,” Simpson wrote in his 70-page opinion. The case will likely be appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court b y Voter ID’s opponents in coming days. Pitt’s Director of C ommonwealth Relations Charles McLaughlin said the University has a policy of not providing a public stance on state government issues. “Generally, on issues that are this contentious, the University does not take a stance,” McLaughlin said. Outside of Pitt’s campus, the newl y-enacted law has received widespread criticism from Pennsylvania’s Democratic party as well as numerous other national and state organizations. Amie Downs, a spokeswoman for Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, said

Pennsylvania’s state constitution lists being 18 years of age and living in Pennsylvania and the U.S. for a month as the onl y criteria for an eligible voter. She said Republicans didn’t attempt to amend the state’s constitution to account for the law’s lack of constitutionality. Fitzgerald was a co-signer of a la wsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania related to the voter ID law. Downs also said the new v oter ID law could prevent 100,000 Allegheny County residents from voting in the November presidential election. Critics of the law and statistics from the Department of State have raised concerns about whether eligible voters will be able to obtain valid identification before the election. Ana Gonzalez, a Philadelphia resident who was born in Puerto Rico and currentl y lacks a valid form of identification, said the new law could prevent her from voting for the first time since gaining eligibility. “I don’t have a birth certificate and, right now, I’m trying to get my birth certificate and I was told I needed a photo ID to try to get a birth certificate, so that’s the situation my family’s struggling with and that’s why I felt I need to get in contact with the A CLU and see if there’s some way they could help me and try to take a stand against this issue, ” Gonzalez said.

With the backing of voters like Gonzalez, organizations from around the nation have publicly opposed the law and dedicated resources to defeat it through the state’s court system. New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, one of the law’s most vocal national opponents, oﬀered its expert assistance in Applewhite v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the case in which Simpson upheld the Voter ID Law. The ACLU and Advancement Project are two of multiple organizations providing legal assistance in the ongoing battle over voter ID in Pennsylvania. Wendy Weiser, Director of the B rennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, Pennsylvania’s House majority leader, revealed the true intentions of the law at a Republican State Committee meeting earlier this year. Turzai said the new law gave presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt R omney an edge in the state. “Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation — abortion facility regulations — in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov.

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MARKETS label,” Haines said. The message of natural, fresh food dominates at the w eekly market at Phipps. The Looking for bright, organic, fresh food? Check out these markets. Most run until October or November.

Mondays 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. East Liberty 5800 Penn Circle W

Tuesdays 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. South Side Sidney and 20th streets 9:30 to 4 p.m. Downtown 3rd ﬂoor, Investment Building 239 Fourth Ave.

Wednesdays 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Carrick Carrick Shopping Center

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com mantra of natural food can be heard repeated throughout the stalls, as many of the vendors proclaim their products’ lack of hormones, pesticides and other treatments frequently used by large-scale agriculture businesses. In addition, many of the vendors will listen to their clients’ comments, vary their harvests

to ﬁt popular demand and educate c lients about the various uses and pairings of their produce. Hannah Finke, 24, of Prospect Meadow Berry Farm, a newl y formed garden -tobusiness residing in Butler County, oﬀered delectable bites of blac k raspberries — a

tart, milder counterpoint to their sweet red cousins — and radish pods, seedlings that can vary in ﬂavor from mild to hot. “Whole Foods and such, you can’t guarantee local. We’re here, ready to answer any questions about how it’s grown, how it tastes, etc.,” Finke said.

Brownsville Road and Parkﬁeld Street

Fridays

3:30 to 6:30 Oakland Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens lawn

9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Strip Pittsburgh Public Market Smallman Street

Allegheny Commons Park (East Commons) East Ohio Street and Cedar Avenue

Thursdays

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Downtown City-County Building 400 Grant St.

3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bloomﬁeld Immaculate Conception School parking lot Cedarville Street and Friendship Avenue 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Beechview Beechview and Broadway avenues 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Downtown Market Square, Forbes Avenue and Market Place Concerts around noon

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Downtown Steel Tower Grant Street at Sixth Avenue 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Oakland Sennot Street, between Atwood Street and Meyran Avenue Often features Amish breads, pastries, etc. 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. North Side

Saturdays 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Emsworth Family Dollar parking lot on Center Avenue at Vista Street 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Strip Pittsburgh Public Market Smallman Street

Sundays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Strip Pittsburgh Public Market Smallman Street

Year-round, every day 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Point Breeze

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Rainbow Alliance, Sodexo comment on campus Chick-fil-A pus dining. The statement from Sodexo didn’t directly comment on same -sex marriage, Tricia Dougherty hasn’t eaten at Chic k- but it ad vised customers to v ote with fil-A in about two years. their money. The president of Pitt ’s Rainbow Alli“While we provide a v ariety of op ance, an LGBTQ advocacy group on cam- tions, ultimately our customers decide pus, cut the restaurant out of her campus for themselves which businesses they dining options ever since she heard the wish to support with their Dining D olfast food chain was donating money to lars,” the statement said. organizations that oppose same-sex marThe statements from both Sodexo and riage. Chick-fil-A maintained that the organizaThe controversy surrounding Chick- tions respect diversity and do not dis fil-A experienced a spike in public aware- criminate when it comes to their clients. ness recently after the Biblical Recorder, a And while Chick-fil-A reaffirmed its weekly Baptist newspaper based in North commitment to “ biblically-based prinCarolina, asked restaurant CEO Dan Cathy ciples,” which include charitable donaif he opposed same-sex marriage. He re- tions and closing on Sundays, it chose sponded in the July 16 interview that he to eschew further commentary on the was “guilty as charged.” hot-button issue. His declaration opened up an outpour“Going forward, our intent is to leave ing of objections and support around the the policy debate over same-sex marriage country. The controversy hits close to to the government and political arena,” home, as Pitt’s campus includes a Chick- Chick-fil-A’s statement said. fil-A restaurant on the ground floor of the For Dougherty, Cathy’s comments Cathedral of Learning. didn’t come as a surprise. The Rainbo w In an email, U niversity spokesman Alliance’s opposition to Chic k-fil-A is John Harvith deferred comment on Pitt’s nothing new. stance on the issue, instead pro viding Dougherty said that two years ago, the statements from Chick-fil-A and Sodexo, group organized a boycott of Chick-fil-A the corporation that oversees Pitt’s cam- because the company donated money

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“[Chick-ﬁl-A] can say anything they want and do what they want, but it’s important that people know where their money is going.” Tricia Dougherty to organizations that oppose marriage equality. However, she said the continued presence of the restaurant on campus wouldn’t be a priority for her organiza tion, regardless of the recent controversy. Dougherty said she w ould bring the issue before the board of the Rainbo w Alliance to ask members if anyone would want to tac kle the issue, most lik ely through attempts to inform the student body about Chick-fil-A’s stance.

“When we did the first protest, people had no idea,” Dougherty said. While she did characterize Chick-fil-A as a “hateful organization” and described its presence on campus as “unfortunate,” Dougherty didn’t go os far as to say that members of the Pitt community should boycott the restaurant. “I won’t say that anyone should or shouldn’t eat there,” she said. The controversy has garnered nationwide attention. The ma yor of Boston, Thomas Menino, and the ma yor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel — both democrats — voiced their opposition to Chick-fil-A restaurants within their cities’ limits, although neither found means of enforcing the sentiment. Other prominent public figures, in cluding former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and the R ev. Billy Graham, came out in support of the restau rant. For Dougherty, helping consumers know what types of organizations their money supports remains the most im portant thing. “[Chick-fil-A] can say anything they want and do what they w ant,” she said, “but it’s important that people kno w where their money is going.”

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New system provides students option to pay to electronically order copies of transcript Joe Chilson Staff Writer Pitt instituted a new s ystem for ordering transcripts this summer, which will abolish the long lines at Thackeray Hall. But the new convenience comes with a price. Pitt’s new s ystem for ordering tran scripts, initiated on J une 5, will be faster , more convenient and will off er transcripts in PDF form. But, for the fi rst time since 2005, the process will cost students money. The old method of obtaining transcripts required students to go to Thac keray Hall and request a physical copy that could also be mailed to a specified location. Under the old system, many graduating students began to fi nd that employers and graduate schools were requesting electronic transcripts, which Pitt did not provide, according to Carol Miller, the supervisor of transcripts and certifications. She said the Registrar’s Office was inundated with requests to make the process more convenient. After two years of investigation on the subject and a c lose look at three third party companies, the Registrar’s Office, in collaboration with the regional campus- Carol Miller es and CSSD, settled on Avow Systems Inc., a software and document security company, to rework its system. “We took our time, and we went with the high end,” Miller said, referring to the cost and quality of the vendor. The new system will allow students to send an electronic transcript or request a transcript be mailed any time of da y from anywhere in the world by using the student portal for current students or the R egistrar’s Office website for former students. An electronic transcript will cost $5, a mailed transcript will cost $6 and an enrollment verification will cost $3.50. Students can still opt to get a physical copy of their transcripts

for free by going to Thackeray Hall, but the Registrar’s Office will no longer mail them. The Avow system also off ers a tracking service. For an extra $1.99, students can see when their mailed transcript has arrived and when their electronic transcript was opened. Miller said the new system is also faster. With Avow, a mailed transcript will usually arrive in 1-2 business days instead of the average 3-5 under the old system. Electronic transcripts will usually arrive in just a few hours. The online system also gives students the option to add an attac hment to their electronic transcript, such as a resumé, a cover letter or test scores. “We’re excited about it, and w e think students will be ex cited about it,” Miller said of the new s ystem. “We’re keeping up with the times.” But some students are uneas y about having to pay for a service which was previously free. Pitt junior J uliana Tambellini said she has always found it convenient to go to Thackeray Hall for her tran script. “This just seems like one of those basic services that they should pro vide for free,” she said. Travis Wisor, assistant University registrar and information resources manager, said Pitt w orked hard to keep student costs down. “We feel like this is a reasonable price,” Wisor said. And when compared with other universities, it is. Temple University charges $8.25 for similar services and Penn State charges $9. Wisor said many at the Registrar’s Office feel that the price is a small one to pay for the step forward in convenience and flexibility. “Our office is still available,” Wisor said. “This is just an extension of the services that our office already offers.”

“We’re excited about it, and we think students will be excited about it. We’re keeping up with the times.”

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DIETRICH said. “We will use the resources to meet ﬁnancial needs for undergraduates and to recruit the best students, who then often go on to receive Rhodes Scholarships, as well as other prestigious scholarships.” The Endowed Fund Reports said a consolidated investment pool was established to manage and invest the University’s endowed funds, and operates under the goal of preserving the purchasing power of each endowed gift as well as distributing funds to the support of the University. Under this goal, the University is able to maintain the value of the donation against inﬂation or changes within the market and use

the funds to meet current and future needs of the school or department, given the gift. Cooper said that individual gifts are given with particular terms and for particular purposes or endowed chairs, and as each endowment grows, more distributable funds become available to be used according to the donor’s wishes. Dietrich previously commented that his gift was to be an investment in the University to ensure Pitt’s ability to provide quality educational opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students, to secure the University’s future as an important institution in southwestern Pennsylvania and to recognize the University’s progress in higher education. His donation brought the University’s Building Our Future Together capital campaign, a

campaign by the University to raise funding outside of tuition and public funds, past the $1.85 billion mark, moving it closer to its $2 billion goal. Cooper said that the campaign, which disperses funds for use by faculty and in scholarships and fellowships, has been extremely successful and is by far the largest capital campaign among public universities in western Pennsylvania’s history. “The chancellor was strongly in the view that voluntary supports were really the key to providing ﬁnancial strength to the University,” Cooper said. “So with the aim to strengthen the University, without being completely dependent on public aid and undergraduate tuition, we made the launch of the capital campaign.”

The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences provides instruction in the natural sciences and humanities and includes more than 10,000 undergraduate students pursuing majors or certificates in the nearly 50 departments and programs. The school also offers the largest graduate program in Pittsburgh and includes Pitt’s College of General Studies, which is one of the region’s leading providers of adult education programs. Grefenstette said that, in time, Dietrich’s donations could have far-reaching impacts. “Because of the perpetual nature of the gift, it certainly has the power, over time, to be transformative for the foundation’s supported organizations, as well as for the city of Pittsburgh, in which almost all of them are situated,” he said. Cooper said that individual donations like Dietrich’s impact Pitt’s future success and accessibility in important ways. “The creation of endowments of this sort are really going to be the key to growing the excellence of our university and also in maintaining access to the University for undergraduate students in a time when tuition is such a financial burden on so many of our students,” he said. FROM PAGE 10

VIGIL as Hinduism and Islam. It boasts more than half a million followers in the U.S. and about 25 million worldwide, making it the world’s ﬁfth-largest religion. As the audience continued to listen intently, Sucha Singh emphasized that focus on God, honest livelihood and sharing within one’s community are central to Sikhs’ faith. He also cited scripture that counsels believers not to seek retaliation against enemies. After Sucha Singh’s address, two other members of the sangat also shared their thoughts on the tragedy. Sangat member Bani Kaur discussed Sikh-Americans’ contributions to the nation, pointing out to that the ﬁrst doctor to arrive at the World Trade Center following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was a Sikh-American. Amar Singh, another member of the sangat, spoke after Kaur. His remarks focused on the turban, the headwear Sikhs don as an outward sign of faith. He pointed out that the turban emerged as a sign of equality during a period of Indian history when castes dictated citizens’ social positions. Despite the events at Oak Creek and other violence directed at Sikhs in the United States and around the world, for Singh, his turban is linked inextricably to his identity. “While the turban may make us the targets of these senseless attacks,” Singh said, “I have never been prouder in my life to tie the turban.” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and Pitt Law School alumnus David Hickton also addressed the

Vigil

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VOTER ID Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done,” Turzai said. Weiser said Turzai’s admission invalidated the Republicans’ argument that the law was enacted to combat possible problems of inperson voting fraud. “In fact, as we all heard, the House Majority Leader had said that it, in fact, was the reason that the law was passed was in order to deliver Mitt Romney as president,” Weiser said. Steve Miskin, Turzai’s press secretary, said reports “misrepresented and mischaracterized” the state representative’s remarks.

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com “The unsaid sentence was that for the first time in many years, there will be a level playing field in Pennsylvania because of voter ID and other election reforms put in place,” Miskin said. “The fact is, there is and has been election fraud in Pennsylvania regardless of Democrat and ACLU naysayers.” Many of Turzai’s Democratic counterparts, however, disagreed with Miskin’s clarification, saying the law poorly defines what’s considered a valid form of identification, thereby putting voters’ rights in danger. Sen. Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, whose legislative district encompasses Pitt’s campus, said in an email that the law was “ill-conceived [and] short-sighted” and could affect many voters — including students. “This will hit students hard — especially

“The elections in the Commonwealth will be on a more level playing ﬁeld thanks to voter ID...” Mike Turzai

if questions are raised about the expiration dates on identification cards,” Costa said. “Seniors, the less-affluent, minorities and others without driver’s licenses or other forms of identification will also face obstacles and may not participate in the election.” But in a statement released on Aug. 15, Turzai once again defended his position on the issue. “The many election reforms enacted, includng voter ID, are aimed to ensure citizens and registered voters have the right to vote and have their vote counted. It’s about one person, one vote, and each instance of fraud dilutes legitimate votes,” the statement said. “The elections in the Commonwealth will be on a more level playing field thanks to voter ID and other recent election reforms.” FROM PAGE 20

CORNER ests as me,” Joyce said. “It is great to work with a group of people united to make a difference.” While Joyce said that he would like to eventually attend a program at The Corner during the fall semester, other Pitt students have made the project a part of their studies at Pitt. Whitney Bosnyak, a student in Pitt’s Graduate School of Social Work, said in an email that she became involved with The Corner through the school’s second-year program placement. She said The Corner oﬀers a variety of summer programs such as Saturday markets, an open microphone night, nutrition

“It is great to work with a group of people united to make a diﬀerence.” Rahul Joyce classes, a home-buying workshop and free health screenings. Bosnynak emphasized that the Saturday morning markets, which take place outside of the community center, have been received positvely by members of the community. During the weekly event, artists and local food vendors sell their products to shoppers from West Oakland and beyond. Like Kramer, Bosnyak said The Corner is a community-driven project, and its programs reﬂect the needs of West Oakland residents. For her, this aspect of The Corner promises a positive output from the community center heading into the future. “In my opinion, the role of a community center in an area as diverse as West Oakland and Oak Hill is a really important one,” Bosnyak said. “I think the more that people can get to know one another and build relationships, the better neighbors they will be, and there will be a greater understanding of various life situations and circumstances.”

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COLBERT gear. The group quickly discovered that each star on the American flag corresponds to a different state. By following patterns indicated in the clues they previously discovered, the stars on the flag revealed a series of numbers — GPS codes. “That epiphany really set us off,” Buchman said. “We had it all figured out by Sunday.” But the gang couldn’t leave immediately because of work commitments, and Buchman couldn’t go at all because she was out of sick days. So after going to work on Monday, and worried they might be beaten to the punc h, Stough, Zaczek and Aizpitarte jumped in the

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com car at 8 p.m. and headed for La Moille, Ill. Following a ten-hour drive from Pittsburgh, they arrived at the source of their GPS coordinates — a farmer’s field in La Moille, Ill. This was the moment. After months of solving clues, they were going to find the silver turtle. But there were no markings in the field. No signpost saying ‘Treasure Here.’ Not even a scarecrow. The owner of the field didn’t know anything about a treasure hunt, either. “He told us if we were looking for a silver turtle, his kids had found some turtles. They could paint them silver and give them to us,” Zaczek said. Zaczek and Stough traipsed out into the field searching for some hint of where their treasure might be, but after searc hing for some time and coming up empty , the team

had to face the facts — they arri ved at the wrong location. In their frustration, but not quite read y to give up yet, the team found a football field in the middle of rural Illinois and laid do wn on it. Zaczek and Stough pored o ver all the clues again, while Aizpitarte laid on her back, thinking. After some time in these positions, Aizpitarte bolted up in revelation. “What if it’s in the wrong format ?” she asked. Stough explained later that the problem with using GPS is there are different formats — a decimal number, degree-minutes-seconds or degree-minutes — which can describe different locations. They ran the coordinates in a new degreesminutes-seconds-based format instead of

the decimal format they previously used and found that the new coordinates led them to a state park about an hour away in Dixon, Ill. “[While] driving, we figured out it was on the Ronald Reagan Trail,” Zaczek said. “That was a tip-off,” Stough said. “ That he would hide it in some conservative place.” Colbert’s character on his television show parodies conservative commentators, most notably Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, and Colbert makes frequent references to his devotion to former President Reagan. Once in the park, though, the team couldn’t find the treasure. They w eren’t sure of the exact point in the 50 -acre park where the treasure was hidden. They spent two hours inspecting a tele phone pole in the middle of the park, thinking the treasure must be hidden inside. Eventually, they moved on to a bathhouse where Reagan worked as a young man. Outside the bathhouse was a memorial to R eagan. Aizpitarte — despite a mortal fear of spiders — pulled stones off the side of the monument, believing the turtle could be inside. “That was our Indiana Jones moment,” Stough added. But the turtle wasn’t in the monument. The gang continued to search. “We get to the edge of this trail, and w e start kind of fanning out, and after onl y a minute I see this strange-looking log on the trail. It was really clean,” Stough said. “And it had cut edges, too,” Aizpitarte said. “I don’t think anything else in that forest had cut edges.” Stough kicked the log. It landed right-side up and he noticed it had a strange sectioned bottom. “I looked at Zaczek and said, ‘W hat is this?’” Zaczek picked up the strange log, and, not realizing his own strength, ripped the bac k part off. Only then did they notice a mark ing that said ‘Don’t break me open...” with a warning lost to the elements. The other side of the log said, “If you want to win the prize, Kingmaker, take heed.” “We were excited at that point, but w e couldn’t even celebrate, we were just staring at each other in shock,” Stough said. Inside they found a small turtle, a scroll congratulating them and an email address to let “The Colbert Report” know they’d found the prize. Zaczek and Stough went back to the car to tell Aizpitarte, who was napping, about their discovery, and they would call Buchman later. “We knocked on the car door and said ‘Aizpitarte, we have a really important clue,’” Stough said. Too exhausted to solve any more clues for the day, Aizpitarte told her friends to go away. The guys eventually got Aizpitarte out of the car, and, in one hand, Z aczek held the treasure before his fellow hunter. Aizpitarte looked at the box with wide eyes. “No way,” she said. Looking back on the trip, Stough isn’t sure what to make of the adventure. “It’s kind of funny because a lot of the stuff we had to figure out by accident or by Providence, whatever way you want to interpret it,” Stough said.

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VIGIL audience, pledging support to the Sikh community and praising its restraint. He called the actions of W ade Michael Page, the alleged shooter , “an attack on our core principles.” He w ent on to pledge that law enforcement will be committed to protecting the Sikh community. “Such attacks are unacceptable and will never be tolerated,” Hickton said. Other government officials also attended the ceremony to off er condolences and support to the Sikh community. U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy offered his sympathies and added that he had seen cause

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com for hope at the service, where so man y expressed solidarity with the Sikh com munity. “We are not a nation of hate,” Murphy said. “We are a nation of love, and as such, there is no room for hate in this room.” James Kennedy and J eﬀrey Schaﬀer took the stage on behalf of Gov. Tom Corbett and U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle respectively, also extending condolences. Tharren Thompson, who teaches religious studies at Penn State, told the au dience about his longstanding relation ship with the Pitts burgh Sikh Gurdwara, where he often brings his students. “The fact that I am a Christian does not prevent being w elcomed here,” he said.

Thompson went on to sa y that mem bers of all faiths w ere rallying around Sikhs to offer support. Following the service, those in atten dance slowly filed out of the sanctuary , each taking a small serving of K arah Parshad, a sw eet, traditional pudding that symbolizes their acceptance of the teachings of their religion’s founders. At the doorway that led to the parking lot, sangat members handed a candle to each person who filed past. Most of those leaving the temple paused to replace their shoes, whic h all those present had removed previously as a sign of respect before entering the sanctuary. Candle light illuminating each of their faces in the dark, the attendees gathered

around the Nishan Sahib , a tall, saff roncolored flag symbolising Sikh identity , whose post w as mounted beside the gurdwara’s parking lot. After a priest and gurdw ara leaders said the name of eac h of the six victims, the rest of those present responded, “Waheguru,” a Sikh name for God, in unison. Following the mention of those slain, the name of Lt. B rian Murphy was also re cited. After all of the names had been read, the worshippers and attendees patientl y awaited their turns to drip melted w ax onto the cylindrical base which held the Nishan Sahib’s post upright before affi xing the bottom of eac h flickering candle onto the fl at concrete on the top of the base. Rabbi James Gibson of T emple Sinai in Squirrel Hill said that his onl y regret was that it had taken a tragedy to bring so many different communities together. He noted that he felt there w as some com monality between Sikh beliefs and his own. “It was comforting to see ho w closely Sikh scriptures parallel our own,” he said. Gibson also mentioned that there were three other rabbis present. Speaking after the vigil conc luded, Hickton reiterated that la w enforcement is committed to prev enting hate crimes and that in recent y ears the D epartment of Justice has implemented outreach programs to the Sikh, Arab and Muslim communities in an attempt to protect their members’ civil rights. Hickton also discussed the FBI’ s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which investigate potential threats, but cited the diffi culty in anticipating such attacks by individuals like Page, who apparently acted alone. “We spend a lot of time in our offi ce trying to prev ent things lik e [the Oak Creek shooting], but there’s a diff erence between preventing something lik e this and anticipating it,” he said. On a personal lev el, Hickton reiterated the shock he felt at hearing of the Aug. 5 tragedy. “If you listened to the service tonight, it is very hard for an yone who is hinged and reasonable to disagree with the principles of this w onderful community,” he said.

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HARDING three-fourths of enrollment at any University is comprised of continuing students, and a big part of his job is to keep retainment numbers healthy. “Retention rate is high at Pitt, and we want to keep it there,” Harding said. In Rupert’s mind, the biggest challenge facing Harding in his new job will be maintaining the level of excellence that the admissions oﬃce has already established. The department received an Oﬃce of Excellence award from Provost and Vice Chancellor Patricia Beeson in 2000 and has taken Pitt’s annual applications total from 15,880

applications in 2002 to 24,873 in 2012, according to Kellie Kane, an assistant director of admissions and financial aid. Rupert seemed assured that Harding is the best man to take on the challenge of continuing the success. “Here’s what I said to the provost: If she had called me into her office and said to me, ‘Go out through the land and find the perfect match for the University of Pittsburgh,’ I would have come back with Marc Harding,” Rupert said. Harding’s former colleagues also praised his performance. Phil Caffrey, director of admissions operations and policy at the University of Iowa and Harding’s co-worker there for 15 years, said that Harding was greatly respected and well

liked at the University, and he said that regard resulted from Harding’s integrity, talent and occasionally goofy persona. “We worked incredibly hard, but it didn’t feel like it,” Caﬀrey said. Part of that might be because Harding focuses on the importance of relationships in his managerial style. He subscribes to a method known as “Situational Management,” coined by author Ken Blanchard in his book of the same title. “It’s doing the really hard work of me getting to know you as well as I can, look at the positive in you, in terms of what gifts you have, what you bring to the table, and then manage appropriately,” Harding said. He feels that, too often, things fall apart

because too little attention is paid to the personal aspect of things. “A lot of it is just investing the time and getting to know who they are, and sometimes even trying to dig down deep and go, “What are they really asking? What are they really wanting? What are they really needing?” Harding said. Harding hasn’t moved any of his things into his new oﬃce yet, but he says that when he does, one of the very few things he’ll put on the wall is a Maya Angelou quote recommended to him by a co-worker at Iowa. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” FROM PAGE 14

RYAN erage incomes of $20,000 a year. Last year, the federal government spent $5,500 for each beneficiary, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which projects that cost will rise to between $8,600 and $9,600 by 2030. Ryan would cap the spending at $7,400 per senior. So unless costs grow much more slowly than expected, the average retiree on Medicare would have to pay between $1,200 and $2,400 a year. The amount would rise over time and would probably be higher for those with chronic health problems. Taxes Ryan’s plan would keep the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush and add an additional $4.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade. It would do that by replacing the current six tax rates with two — 10 percent and 25 percent. It would also eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax and cut corporate taxes. Not all Americans would get a tax cut, however. The plan would repeal tax breaks for low-income families with children and other changes adopted in 2009 under Obama. The net result would be a tax increase for the bottom fifth of households and a big tax cut at the top, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. In many cases, low-income households would see a tax increase of $100 or less, but some would be hit harder. Among households earning between $10,000 and $20,000 a year, about 1 in 5 would get a tax increase averaging more than $1,000, the Tax Policy Center analysis showed. Households earning more than $1 million a year would get nearly 40 percent of the benefits of the plan, with a cut averaging about $265,000. Ryan has not challenged those figures. Those tax cuts would reduce overall federal revenue far below the level of spending that Ryan would allow. The result would be a very large deficit — larger than Obama envisions. To keep that from happening, Ryan says he would eliminate existing tax breaks to

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“broaden the base” of the tax code. “What we’re saying is take away the tax shelters that are uniquely enjoyed by people in the top tax brackets so they can’t shelter as much money from taxation,” Ryan said in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview in mid-August. While upper-income taxpayers pay a lot of taxes, many of the tax beneﬁ ts they use are either supported by Ryan and Romney or don’t come close to closing the gap. One of the largest beneﬁ ts for upperincome taxpayers, for example, is the lower tax rate for capital gains. R yan, like Rom-

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com ney, opposes raising the capital gains tax rate. Indeed, in 2010, when Ryan unveiled his plan, it called for entirel y eliminating taxes on capital gains, interest and di vidends. Romney opposed that idea during the Republican primaries. Ryan has never disowned it, but did not address the topic in this year’s version of the plan. The remaining big tax preferences all have huge political support — the mort gage interest deduction, the ex clusion of employer-provided health insurance from income, the charitable contribution deduction. Changing those would increase taxes on middle-income households, which Romney has said he w on’t do. Not changing them while still enacting the tax cuts would mean

a much higher deﬁcit and rising debt. Medicaid The biggest single source of cost savings in Ryan’s budget would come from cutting Medicaid, the joint state -federal program that provides health care for the poor and disabled, and a companion program that pays for health care for children. Now serving 58 million low-income children, disabled adults and seniors a y ear, Medicaid is the nation ’s main health care safety net. Much of the spending on the program goes to long-term care for seniors, largely in nursing homes, whic h Medicare does not cover.

Under the Ryan plan, funding would be cut by a third, according to the CB O, and the remaining federal funds would be given to the states as a block grant to use as they wish in providing care to the poor. Conservatives have long argued that giving state and local governments greater control would save money by making Medicaid more efficient. The budget office said in its analysis this year that “even with signifi cant efficiency gains, states would need to increase their spending on these programs, make considerable cutbacks in them, or both.” Medicaid already makes up one of the largest shares of most states ’ budgets, making new state funds unlikely. Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals substantially less than they get from pri vate insurance or Medicare. In many states, eligibility requirements are extremely tight. For example, 30 states do not allow coverage for parents who earn more than $9,500 a year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Expanding Medicaid had been a central part of Obama’s health care law. Ryan’s budget would repeal that expansion along with the rest of the law. Defense and domestic spending One important display of priorities in Ryan’s budget is the trade-off between defense spending and domestic programs other than Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Last summer, Congress and the W hite House reached a deal that w ould trigger automatic across-the-board spending cuts of nearly $1 trillion o ver 10 years, beginning Jan. 2 — half from defense, half from domestic programs. The automatic cuts would be stopped if C ongress reached a plan to reduce the deficit. Ryan would upend that deal. Instead of cutting defense by half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years — which Obama also opposes — Ryan would increase the military budget by $300 billion over the decade. Ryan would keep in place the across-theboard cuts on the domestic side and deepen them by $700 billion more over the decade. Some of the domestic spending cuts are spelled out in Ryan’s blueprint — a cut in food stamps, for example, that w ould impose new limits on the length of time re cipients can receive aid. Like Medicaid, the food stamp program would become a grant to the states, giving local jurisdictions more say in how the money is spent. Pell Grants for college students w ould similarly be capped, with new requirements that make only lower-income students eligible. Worker training programs would also be reduced. Overall, the CBO said in its analysis that under Ryan’s budget, spending on defense and all domestic programs other than Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid w ould fall to 6 percent of the total econom y by 2030, about half the current lev el. That would mean a smaller share of the economy going to federal domestic spending other than entitlements than at an y time since the New Deal.

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Friday, May 25

taken to Allegheny County Jail.

8:48 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a motor vehicle accident with injuries at Centre Avenue and Allequippa Street.

7:25 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a burglary in progress at 220 C oltart Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. The actor was located and taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

1:32 p.m. — A student reported that his bike was stolen from Towers Patio. An investigation is pending.

9:27 p.m. — Pitt police issued a summons arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia and disorderly conduct at 300 N. Craig St. to non-aﬃliate George Larry Bennett, of 274 Dunseith Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213.

Saturday, May 26 1:58 a.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with an assault at 360 McK ee Place, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. The actor was located and

5:01 p.m. — Pitt police conducted a suspicious person check at South Bouquet Street and Forbes Avenue. The individual was identiﬁed and advised. 8:52 p.m. — Pitt police assisted WPIC Se -

curity with an indi vidual who was being disorderly. The individual was advised and given property warnings. 9:35 p.m. — Pitt police issued one citation for violating a city ordinance at A twood Street and Fifth Avenue to non-affiliate Bernard B. King, of 101 Knox Avenue Apt. 101, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15210. 9:49 p.m. — Pitt police conducted a suspicious person check at Five Guys Burgers and Fries. The individual was identified and given property warnings. 10:01 p.m. — Pitt police issued tw o citations for marijuana possession and disor derly conduct at South Bouquet and Joncaire streets to non-affiliate Logan S. Handelsman, of 311 Maple Ave., Swissvale, Pa., 15218, and non-affiliate Scott Hillman, of 713 Saint James St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15232. 11:37 p.m. — Pitt police issued one ph ysical arrest at Fresco Way and Semple Street to non-affiliate Dallas P. Wilson, of 1649 Palm St., Hershey, Pa., 17033, for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, providing false ID to law enforcement, public intoxication, underage drinking and violation of a city ordinance. Pitt police also issued one physical arrest at the same location to affi liate Derik P. Wilson, of 436 Hockersville Road, Hershey, Pa., 17033, for resisting arrest, providing false ID to law enforcement, disorderly conduct, furnishing alcohol to a minor, underage drinking, and violating a city ordinance. Sunday, May 27 12:04 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a motor vehicle accident with no injuries at University Place and O’Hara Street. Monday, May 28 8:12 a.m. — Pitt police responded to an elevator entrapment at Benedum Hall. Engineers released the indi vidual without incident. 1:57 p.m. — Pitt police responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident without injury involving a University vehicle at 3412 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. 8:47 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with an investigation at the Public Safety Building. 10:46 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city po lice with a gunshot victim that walked into UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Tuesday, May 29

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BLOTTER 11:22 a.m. — Pitt police received report of a fire having started on the fourth fl oor of Salk Hall. The city fire department and medics were notified and responded. Environmental Health and Safety also responded. The building was evacuated and the fire was extinguished. An investigation is pending. Wednesday, May 30 8:28 a.m. — Pitt police received report of an unconscious person in Trees Hall. City medics responded and transported the person to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital.

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com 9:34 a.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a motor v ehicle accident involving a pedestrian at Forbes Avenue and Oakland Avenue. 3:57 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a possible o verdose at 3708 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. The incident was cleared. Thursday, May 31 2:02 p.m. — A person reported that his stethoscope was stolen from his loc ker in Scaife Hall. An investigation is pending. 4:24 p.m. — A person reported the theft of

miscellaneous retail items at the Petersen Events Center. An investigation is pending.

ﬁliate Jodi Lincoln, of 5715 Northumberland St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15227.

5:32 p.m. — Pitt police assisted UPMC Security with a combative person at Presbyterian Hospital. The person w as identiﬁed and escorted oﬀ the property.

Saturday, June 2

9:06 p.m. — Pitt police issued one citation for public drunkenness at Oakland Avenue and Sennott Street to non-aﬃliate Everette Stubbleﬁeld, of 509 East Ninth Ave., Munhall, Pa., 15120. Friday, June 1 1:01 a.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for underage drinking at Hillman Library to af-

12:57 a.m. — Pitt police issued three ci tations for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Oakland Avenue and Sennott Street. One citation w as issued to non-affiliate Shaquala D. Berry, of 2 Michigan Road, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15235. Two juveniles were also cited and released to an adult. 10:57 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for underage drinking at Fifth and Bellefield avenues to affi liate Jessica M. Williams, of 908 Rake Road, Mohrsville, Pa., 19541. Sunday, June 3 12:26 a.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Boundary and Joncaire streets to non-affiliate Marc Pryor, of 331 Moore Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15210. 9:06 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a burglary in progress at 432 A twood St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. The incident was cleared. 10:29 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for disorderly conduct at Exx on at 3500 Forbes Ave. to non-affiliate Tamika R. Vactor, of 217 Cambridge Square Drive Apt. 1, Monroeville, Pa., 15146. Monday, June 4 1:13 p.m. — Pitt police recei ved report of a person having a seizure at Salk Hall. City medics responded and transported the person to UPMC Presbyterian. Tuesday, June 5 11:05 a.m. — A person reported his com puter and cell phone were stolen at the Biomedical Science Tower. A possible actor was located and the items were recovered. Charges are pending upon completion of the investigation. 7:00 p.m. — A person reported that an unknown individual might have tampered with his bike at Bellefield Hall. No visible damage was reported and the person was advised. Wednesday, June 6 8:02 p.m. — Pitt police arrested non-affiliate Earl Perry, of 620 Doyle St., Homestead, Pa., 15120, on Robinson Street for theft of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property. Thursday, June 7 5:23 a.m. — A janitor reported some graffiti, which was located in the men’s bathroom on the first floor of the William Pitt Union. An investigation is pending.

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BLOTTER 8:37 a.m. — A person reported that someone keyed their car while it w as parked in the PG Lot at O’Hara and Desoto streets. An investigation is pending. 2:37 p.m. — A person reported money was stolen from her wallet at the Loeﬄer Building. An investigation is pending. 1:38 p.m. — Pitt police issued one citation for public intoxication at 3710 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 to non-aﬃliate Milan Karan, homeless.

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Friday, June 8 11:04 a.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a person breaking into cars at 4208 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213. The area was checked with negative results and the incident cleared. 9:20 p.m. — Pitt police issued one summons arrest on Meyran Avenue to non-aﬃliate Michael Morelli, of 103 Atwood St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213, for simple assault, harassment, disorderly conduct and public intoxication. 9:39 p.m. — A person reported being as saulted by a group of ju veniles on Terrace Street. The area was checked with negative results. An investigation is pending.

Saturday, June 9 3:55 p.m. — Pitt police recei ved report of a hit-and-run accident of an unattended vehicle at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. An investigation is pending. 7:49 p.m. — Pitt police issued three citations for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Centre Avenue and Allequippa Street to non-aﬃliates Bennie L. Benton, of 410 Jonathan Court, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15208, Rhonda J. Sears of 7723 Mulford St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15208, and Jameelah D. Butler, of 5366 Mossﬁeld St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 15224. Sunday, June 10

12:16 a.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a home invasion and kidnapping at 311 McKee Place. The area was checked and the actor was located and taken into custody. 2:18 a.m. — Pitt police issued one cita tion for possession of marijuana and dis orderly conduct at Forbes and Bellefi eld avenues to non-affiliate Andre R. Freeman, of 7223 Everton St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206. 3:49 a.m. — W hile conducting a traffic stop at Forbes and Bellefi eld avenues, Pitt police determined the indi vidual had an active warrant. Police issued a citation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct as well as a traffic citation to nonaffiliate Howard Bullard, of 140 Cana veral St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235. 12:38 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police and Carnegie Mellon police with a harassment/threat at Hillman Library. The incident was cleared. 9:58 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at North Bellefield Avenue to nonaffiliate Jamaal Ellies Moore, of 3510 Charlotte St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15210. Monday, June 11 7:25 a.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a person who stated he was feeling suicidal and homicidal and was on his way to WPIC. Officers located the individual and the person was self-admitted. 3:46 p.m. — An individual reported the theft of a concrete saw at the Melwood Maintenance Building. The area was checked with negative results. An investigation is pending. 5:10 p.m. — Pitt police issued one citation for possession of marijuana and dis orderly conduct at Bates Street and McKee Place to non-affiliate Nicholas S. Hesse, of 259 Thompsonville Road, McMurray, Pa. 15317. Tuesday, June 12 7:01 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Centre Avenue and North Craig Street to non-affiliate Udell Tyrone Whitley, of 128 W. Twelfth Ave., Homestead, Pa. 15120. 8:26 p.m. — Pitt police received a report that a group of males were vandalizing the men’s locker room in Trees Hall. The area was checked with negative results. An in vestigation is pending. Wednesday, June 13 10:32 p.m. — Pitt police issued two summons arrests at the Quality Inn University Center parking lot. One summons arrest

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BLOTTER for possession of a narcotic, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal conspiracy was issued to non-affiliate Kelsey Pullion, of 1150 Acorn Drive, Greensburg, Pa. 15601, and one summons arrest for possession of a narcotic, possession of drug paraphernalia, tampering with evidence and criminal conspiracy was issued to non-affiliate Jason Thomas, of 628 Oakland Ave., Greensburg, Pa. 15601. Friday, June 15 2:20 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police at Sennott Square with indi viduals possibly involved in a shooting in Zone 2 . The individuals were not located and the incident was cleared. 3:01 p.m. — Pitt police issued a w arrant arrest for non-affiliate Gene Moses, of 3341 McNeil Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219, at Wadsworth and Robinson streets. 10:25 p.m. — Pitt police recei ved report of a burglar alarm sounding at the DLR Building. The area was checked and it was secure. Saturday, June 16 5:53 p.m. — Pitt police issued one citation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Litchfield Tower B to affiliate Chelsea R. Anderson, of 346 B radford Lane, Lansdale, Pa. 19446. Monday, June 18 7:55 p.m. — Pitt police issued one ci tation for possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct at Baum Boulev ard to non-affiliate Jeremy S. Mitcheltree, of 441 Finley Road, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15239. Tuesday, June 19 1:55 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a motor v ehicle accident on the 3400 block of Forbes Avenue. 3:20 p.m. — Pitt police and city medics responded to Salk Hall for an aided case. The person was transported to UPMC Presbyterian for treatment. Wednesday, June 20 9:21 a.m. — Pitt police reco vered an iPhone at the Cathedral of L earning. The item was placed in an evidence locker. 11:53 a.m. — Pitt police assisted WPIC Security with an indi vidual who was possibly making threats. The indi vidual was upset due to property not being returned to him. The incident was cleared. 5:40 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a w arrant at the public safety

building. 8:08 p.m. — Pitt police responded to a report of a dumpster on fire at Salk Hall. The fire was extinguished by the fi re department. 8:29 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a fire on the 100 block of Oakland Avenue. The fire was controlled and extinguished by the fire department. Thursday, June 21 11:01 a.m. — Pitt police responded to a report of a possible burglary at the Hieber Building.

2:12 p.m. — Pitt police responded to a report of a windshield that was broken due to a baseball at the Petersen Sports Complex. 4:32 p.m. — Pitt police ph ysically arrested Sean Mitchell, of 1021 Vermont Ave. Apt. 4, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15234, for aggravated assault. 5:35 p.m. — Pitt police assisted city police with a traﬃ c accident involving a pedestrian at Fifth and Meyran a venues. The individual was transported to a medical facility for treatment. Friday, June 22 1:42 p.m. — Pitt police received a report

49 of a possible money scam involving a University of Pittsburgh phone number at 164 Fallen Timber Lane, Tarentum, Pa. 15084. An investigation is pending. 6:01 p.m. — Pitt police ph ysically arrested non-affiliate Jason Sinks, of 136 Main St., Apt. B, West Sunbury, Pa. 16061, for contraband and possession of drug paraphernalia. Pitt police also summons arrested non-affiliate Ryan Glagola of 111 Harper Ave., Butler, Pa. 16001 for possession of drug paraphernalia. 8:32 p.m. — Pitt police received a report of an individual yelling and swearing in the street on Forbes Avenue. The individual was identified and advised to leave the area.

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OPINIONS

THE SCHAFFIDAVIT

With these tips, group projects don’t mean the death of happiness Matt Schaff Columnist When an academic year begins, students often prepare by looking for ways to save time. Hoping to fit more productivity into the same 168-hour school week, we search our memories of past academic activities for places warranting improvement. Often, those places are obvious. For example, cutting down involvement in floor-wide Halo tournaments, Facebook comment wars and weeknight alcohol binges opens up time for studying and the possibility of healthy circadian rhythms. But this semester, more of students’ attempts to cut back on lost time should be directed to optimize a subtler time suck: group projects. I really should clarify that group projects only pose to assault the schedules of a small portion of students. For many others, in fact, a teacher assigning a group project constitutes nothing more than a de facto gift of free time. That is, just as in high school, collegiate group projects suffer heavily from the free-rider problem: Twenty percent of participants produce 80 percent of the work. The other 80 percent get to have their grade and eat cake, too. I’ve never been a free rider, and I say that with chagrin, not pride. Rather, I hold a strange respect for those who manage to take advantage of the awkward social situation presented by group projects to successfully skirt any semblance of responsibility. I’m not so impressive. Upon project assignment, instead of putting on an artful performance that allows me to spend would-be project time to address any other of college life’s tasks, I’m pushed by, let’s say, internal forces to do something temporally taxing: meaningfully participate. Be it a tinge of perfectionism, an appreciation of industriousness or a nascent psychosis — whatever it is, I choose to pour time into group projects when I could otherwise feast on the fruits of classmates’ labor. Given the preceding rhetoric, you might think I’m about to en-

dorse free riding as a worthy tool in college students’ time-saving playbook. But if you’re receptive to such an argument, this column isn’t for you. Instead, I’m concerned with helping those like me: those sorry souls similarly cursed with the unconscious impulse to throw time, energy and oﬃce supplies at any assignment coming their way. If you’re among those who just can’t help but participate in group projects, here’s how to convert the free riders around you into more-thansomewhat-helpful group members this semester:

it’s a lot easier to ignore the task at hand when you don’t know how you’re going to contribute to it. To combat this, ask someone else — remember, you can’t introduce yourself as the worker bee — to email everyone a list of responsibilities and manage the ensuing thread of project-related emails. Be prepared for group members who will try to indeﬁnitely postpone the role-assignment phase by saying things like, “We’ll take another look at this next week.”

The less you look like you know what you’re doing, the better. That doesn’t mean acting dumb or catatonic ...

Getting your whole group in a room together is likely essential for the success of your project — or at least the fairness of it. But doing so is more of an art than a reflex. What you need are powerful incentives. Sure, you could try food or TV, but unless you’re getting filet mignon delivered, your best bet is somehow to make group members think their grades are on the line. If you can get them to worry so much about their professor comparing them to fellow group members — and that comparison coloring individual grades — that they attend these joint meetings, you’d be well on your way to taking work off your plate.

Try not to seem too loud, interested or confident

Set up group meetings with your professor

Third-grade tactics Students inclined to hop on their peers’ backs start scouting for roomy shoulders the ﬁrst time the group convenes. To promote more equitable teamwork over the course of the project, do your best to create an environment where everyone’s at the same apparent state of motivation. The less you look like you know what you’re doing, the better. That doesn’t mean acting dumb or catatonic; you just have to increase the likelihood that your groupmates will suddenly realize the need to step up. Define roles, early Too much aimless pandemonium gives wannabe free riders a welcome opportunity to disengage;

Things might be looking bad. Let’s say you’ve done all the right things but your group members insist — subtly or not — on giving up their project to the magical worker fairies in the sky (you). In this case, your last resort is to attempt engendering that “we’re all in this together” feeling in people’s hearts. Yes, that means team-building exercises. Don’t just learn group members’ names; inquire about their majors or, if you’re daring enough, their thoughts on current events. But camaraderie doesn’t grow on trees, so if that fails, consider coﬀee — you’re about to have a lot of late nights on your own. Write Matt at matthew.schaﬀ@ gmail.com.

Let t er fro m t he Edito r This year will bring a presidential election, still-undetermined eﬀects of Pennsylvania’s voter ID bill, a new football coach, a governor’s advisory commission working to reshape the state’s postsecondary education system and, most likely, more debate surrounding the state’s budget and how it relates to Pitt. That’s why you should make The Pitt News part of your daily routine. The results of these events have the potential to shape the lives of the almost 30,000 students who attend the University of Pittsburgh. And at The Pitt News, a completely independent student-run newspaper, our mission has always been to serve the students at this University. We have a news section devoted to digging into information not easily made available to the public. We have a team of columnists critiquing various aspects of University life and policy. We have an arts and entertainment section providing readers with cultural knowledge and updates. And we have a sports desk oﬀering the

campus’s most timely sports coverage. Not only do we keep Pittnews. com frequently refreshed, we also have social media accounts that are always delivering news. So follow our main Twitter account, @ThePittNews, and our sports Twitter, @pittnewssports. Like us on Facebook; be part of the conversation. It’s easy to wake up and go to class each day and not pay attention to what the school administration or the state government is doing. But choose to pick up The Pitt News and read it while eating your eggs at Market Central or waiting for your class to begin. See something you like or don’t like? Write a letter to the editor or comment on a story online. Welcome back to Pitt, and the next time you pass a newsstand, pick up a copy of The Pitt News. After all, you’re the ones we’re working for. As always, Hail to Pitt, Amy Friedenberger Editor in Chief

THE RIVETER

Hey, I just met you, and things are looking up Rosie McKinley Columnist The songs that top the summertime charts are often faster and perkier than the tunes popular in colder seasons. But this summer more than ever, these catchy rhythms and lyrics have paralleled an equally upbeat national and local attitude. The popular hits of summer 2012 are in many ways typical of summers past. There are lyrics that don’t actually rhyme, repetitions of the same chords and cliche expressions of simple teenage love. Summer songs are usually upbeat — the sort of music you want to listen to on a long drive. But this summer’s songs are exceptionally so; and when mixed with other signs of progress along our country’s highway, they ﬁnally don’t

seem too out of place. It was on a recent 11-hour road trip that I ﬁrst noticed the similarity of this year’s hits, regardless of how often I changed the radio station. For nearly 500 miles between Cleveland and New York City, behind the wheel of my Subaru station wagon, I heard ultra-sweet songs such as Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and Demi Lovato’s “Give Your Heart a Break” on repeat, and not much else. On road trips in recent summers, these happy summertime hits would seem at odds with a nation struggling with bursting housing bubbles and major national catastrophes. It was hard to enjoy “California Gurls” or “I Gotta Feeling” between bleak job reports during

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THE STAMATTACK

COLUMN

Please stop taking pictures of fireworks

Don’t get into the Netflix rut this year Naomi Borrebach Opinions Editor

Really, what’s the value of that blurry photo you took on your iPhone? Melinda Maloney | Contributing Staff

Nick Stamatakis Assistant Opinions Editor Scene: a country music concert in downtown Nashville, Tenn. The crowd is a good mix of die-hard country fans and more casual onlookers, like myself. A famous singer gets on the stage. With the sky now partially dark, thousands of iPhone screens pop up and hover over the crowd. As the night grows darker, the lights are morphed from individual rectangles to resemble a net of Christmas lights entrapping the audience. Of course, iPhone photography isn’t just a Nashville thing. Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field was the same way. Same with the Dave Matthews Band — or at least I’m guessing it was. Even less famous and notable events get some level of amateur iPhone photography. At both the Erie County Fourth of July ﬁreworks display and the Boyz II Men Fan Jam at PNC Park in June, I saw the same thing: people photographing

blurry, distant things happening too far away to look halfway decent on a camera phone. Call me crazy, but do we really need to take this many pictures? I can’t quite ﬁgure out why spectators everywhere feel so obligated to capture such scenes. These aren’t pictures of friends at the concert. This isn’t one or two still photos of the stage. Instead, these are hours of fuzzy footage of ﬁreworks and indecipherable noises that we are documenting just for the sake of documenting. The numbers showcasing our love of video and photography are absolutely staggering. In half a minute — roughly the amount of time it took you to read to this point within this article — 30 hours of video have been uploaded to YouTube, according to a statement by Google. A month of YouTube uploads contains more video than the entirety of 60 years of Big Three broadcast television. I don’t imagine people actually watch these things. When it goes out into great cyberspace, most people don’t: Roughly a third of all YouTube

videos have fewer than 100 views, according to Watchmojo.com, an online video production company. But it isn’t much better when this stuff stays on our phones or Facebook accounts. Does anybody get gooey-eyed and sentimental looking at a picture of the Erie County Fourth of July fireworks show? Or at a more spectacular show in New York or Washington? Maybe it is the social element of these events that we want to capture. We want to Facebook and Instagram all this fun stuff we do and broadcast it to the world (incidentally, if I ever see anybody Instagram-ing a firework, there will be a world of pain). But even here, the marginal benefit from posting hundreds of blurry pictures is not that great. Maybe we get a few extra shots of dopamine from gleefully spending hours telling the world about how awesome our lives are, but overall, you are not impressing anybody or even genuinely expressing more of the experience to your social network by holding your

Does this cycle of undergraduate life sound familiar to you? Wake up, go to class, study. Go to a group project meeting, outline an essay, have a small breakdown in the library. Go to work. Sleep. Wake up — it’s Friday! Party away the pain of your academic life for two days. Nervously check Facebook for any incriminating evidence. Sleep. After a hearty breakfast, promptly have another small breakdown over the state of your essay, this time in the Cathedral Commons while nursing a splitting headache. Go to work. Repeat until summer break, when the entire undergraduate population of Pitt simultaneously collapses with exhaustion and then radically changes its lifestyle for three months. While it is all too tempting to spend weekdays in an anxious frenzy of activity and to let go of all of the week’s tension on the weekend, I think that we could all benefit from taking some of the easy-going spirit of summer with us into the academic year. During the summer, most of us don’t have to alternate between the extremes of intense academic and work stress during the week and total relaxation on the weekends. Because obligations are fewer and the weather is nicer, it’s easier to strike a balance in our scheduling and attitudes. Here are a few ways to take the relaxed feeling of summer with you this year, even as the leaves turn brown and the piles of textbooks get taller. 1. Schedule fun activities during the week During the school year, it’s hard to find time during the week to have fun. So make sure that you plan time for fun activities to take a break from the chaos. If you make a schedule of your week in advance, try to keep in mind relaxing or fun things that you’d like to do when planning your schedule. And work ahead of time so that you don’t end up skipping out on having coffee with friends or going to a movie because deadlines are approaching.

During the summer, it’s a lot easier for me to be productive on the weekends because I don’t feel like it’s my last opportunity to relax before the onslaught of work starts on Monday. A balanced attitude toward work and relaxation makes it a lot easier to actually ﬁnish some homework on Saturday afternoon, instead of idly staring at a textbook as a precursor to a nap.

During the summer, most of us don’t have to alternate between the extremes of intense academic and work stress during the week and relaxation on the weekends. 3. Do yoga (or some other exercise) Although you can’t do sunrise yoga on the beach in Pittsburgh, you can get the same beneﬁts by taking an exercise class or pulling out a yoga mat in your apartment. Enlist some friends or roommates and you’ll all get the physical, social, and mood-boosting beneﬁts of those amazing beachfront exercise classes — even when snow covers the ground. 4. Take spontaneous trips One of the best parts of summer is that you can go on vacation. Try to bring summer into the school year by getting some friends to-

2. Be productive on the weekends

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In light of the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A, do you think corporations should pick sides on social issues like gay marriage?

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Corporations are entitled to their own opinions, but I think what Chick-fil-A did by making their opinion public, I think that was a little too much. You’re opinion is your private thing. When you say something that could potentially ruin your customer base like Chick-fil-A did, I think that took it too far. I think corporations should probably keep their opinions to themselves. Brandon Lemanski | Junior, emergency medicine

Corporations are run by people, so of course they are going to have their own opinions about different political issues. And if you do have an agenda, of course you are going to use your power to influence it. So, yeah, I do think its OK.

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I think that it’s up to companies if they choose to support something, because if they lose a customer base based on it, then it’s their decision. Natalie Sweet | Senior, art history and anthropology

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The way I see it, everyone has their own right to free speech, even a company. And granted, yes, Chickfil-A doesn’t have an opinion that most people, or a lot of people in my personal friend group, agree with, but I think it’s important to protect Corry Casperson | our rights to free speech because Junior, French and a lot of times in the past, people linguistics who have been censored for that — I mean, it hasn’t really worked out well. If you don’t like Chick-fil-A, please get your chicken sandwiches somewhere else, or use your money to benefit you own cause, but I don’t think it’s worth putting up a huge fight over.

I think corporations have the right to choose sides. That’s part of the freedom of speech amendment. But I think no matter what they decide to be public, there are always going to be people against what they believe. As long as they know willingly they are going to be in a heat storm, then yeah, go for it. But if not, they should probably keep it private. Zachary Zafris | Senior, history

THE SCHAFFIDAVIT

Bring Google Street View to Pitt, bring Pitt to the world Matt Schaff Columnist Pitt should welcome Google cameras onto campus. Consider this: It’s August, and y ou’re a rising high school senior living in, say, Fresno, Calif. Maintaining that she has your best interests in mind, your mom is once again harping on you to make an honest eﬀort in the college search. So, half to appease her and half to imagine life outside of making the bed and meeting curfew, you turn to the instrument you think best-suited to aid in your decisionmaking process — the Internet. Somewhere down the line y ou come across a school whose mountains, bridges and programs interest you, but whose distant location invalidates feasible travel. It calls itself the University of Pittsburgh. After perusing departmental websites and student testimonials, you inevitably reach a certain question, which you subsequently run into

a wall trying to fully answer: What is it like to go to Pitt? Sure, forums like College Conﬁdential, statistical resources like the Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report, student publications and even pictures of campus buildings and activities all contribute to a meaningful “what it’s like” understanding. But what if you could add a whole new way of pre-evaluating a school’s “feel” to these perspectives: A self-guided, 360-degree tour through campus, attainable from any wired computer and unlikely, thanks to a robust cloud infrastructure, to ever go oﬄine? Such a resource w ould undoubtedly be valuable to prospective students (and participating universities), and that’s why Pitt should join the growing list of U.S. universities partnering with Google Street View. Since 2009, institutions of higher edu cation from Dartmouth College to the University of Pennsylvania to the University of California at Riverside have invited search

giant Google from the “streets” onto their grounds. Thanks to the Google Street View Partners program, the nooks and crannies of 27 major U.S. college and university campuses are wide open for public view, integrated seamlessly into Google Maps. Similarly plastering its w alkways and non-street public spaces in plain electronic sight, Pitt could make college decisions easier for prospective students who live a significant distance from Pitt’s campus. Think about how your “initial sense” of Pitt could have changed if you could effortlessly take an after-class stroll alongside the Cathedral of Learning, attend an event in Schenley Quad or chill out on Towers Patio, all in under five minutes from the convenience of your computer or smartphone. Far more helpful than the building-by-building slideshow currently available on Pitt’s website, a Street View representation of Pitt’s campus could instantly familiarize prospects with the environment that would surround them should

they choose to attend Pitt. And that ’s not even mentioning the emotional value such a resource could provide to alumni and helicopter parents. More than just individuals stand to beneﬁt from a Street-View-enhanced Pitt. With Pitt’s architecture and other physical amenities at the world’s scrutinizing ﬁngertips, the visibility of the University as a whole could experience a boost (I suppose as long as we cut our grass). James Grant, assistant vice chancellor of strategic communications at Riverside, agrees that suc h Google partnerships could give sometimes-overlooked schools another chance to prove themselves. “Why not look for an ad vantage and make sure people are aware of what we’ve got right now?” he said in an Inside Higher Ed report in July. Despite the compelling reasons to jump

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Use the ‘5-Minute Morning’ strategy to get to class on time Jonathan Fischer Columnist Alex needs to attend a 9 a.m. psychology class. The alarm clock reads 8:50 p.m. What does he need to do in order to make it to class on time? Assuming a frantic commute to the classroom will take five minutes, he only has five minutes to get out the door. He needs a strategy. It’s a good thing he has one. Alex is an on-campus college student and, like any class-bound student, has felt the pressure of a timed commute before. Being a minute late could result in the unfortunate fate of having to open a closed classroom door in front of his entire psychology class. In addition, Alex wants to lessen the possibility of forgetting a wallet or reusing the odor-ridden T-shirt closest to the door. Although others might adopt a strategy that resigns them to these unfortunate fates, Alex always follows his game plan that seemingly defies the laws of time. By using a set of time-efficient

techniques, Alex will practice his “Five-Minute Morning” strategy in order to consistently reach his psychology class on time. Channel the adrenaline rush (8:50 a.m.) His eyes are slightly blurred from awakening, but the red outlines of the alarm clock on his coﬀee table hold true to form. The realization of the time sets in. Within seconds, Alex’s body receives a shock of adrenaline, and he hurls the covers from his dorm room bed into the air, setting his plan in motion. As the covers fall elegantly to the ground, he gets to his feet. A sudden panic begins to set in as his mind races and his pupils dilate. With renewed intent, he stumbles forward and asserts, out loud, “I’m going to make my class.” Alex recalls the game plan and uses this initial rush of adrenaline as the foundation of his now-focused state. Establish a hygiene bag (8:51 a.m.) Either by virtue of

late-night inspiration or by virtue of necessity created by use of communal restrooms, Alex had established his hygiene bag beforehand. This includes an assortment of toiletries including face wipes, hand sanitizer, deodorant, gum and a comb. The small, unzipped black leather bag provides a pseudo-shower experience in one-tenth of the time of a regular bathroom excursion. Using the aforementioned items provides a quick cleanup for Alex. He pops a stick of gum into his mouth, providing at least a facade of spearmint over his morning breath, and proceeds to his closet. Master the “Hot Swap” (8:52 a.m.) Swinging open the closet door reveals a set of clothing. Within a minute, he is buttoning his shirt and tying on his shoes. How did he do it so fast? You may note during your video game playing the tendency of certain characters to suddenly change armor or clothing with minimal eﬀort. This is called a “Hot Swap.”

The same idea, surprisingly, can apply to real life. (Unless Alex enjoys wearing his pajama pants to class, which is a whole other issue — but I digress). The goal of hot swapping is to spend almost no time searching for an appropriate set of clothing by preparing clothing the night before. Alex has already systematically placed a matching top, bottom and shoe combination together in his closet. Socks and underwear come as a standard feature in the package. With proper preparation, the hot swap takes 54 seconds. Now, he both smells clean and looks ready to leap out of the door. But is he truly ready for class? Not quite. Locate the “Drop Zone” and perform the KWC (8:54 a.m.) Like a fighter pilot locking in on his target, Alex’s eyes dart to his “Drop Zone,” located on the coffee table next to his alarm clock. He has established a specific location, a 1-foot by 1-foot space that through the day serves as a

drop-off point for his essential items. By habit, every time he enters his dorm room, he places his keys, wallet and cell phone (KWC) in the same spot, making it an easy and quick task to locate and gather his belongings. The performance of the KWC maneuver requires a Matrix-like ability to stop time. With adrenaline rushing and time expiring, Alex asks himself, “Do I have my keys, wallet and cell phone on me?” A pause for confirmation ensures that these items are not forgotten, and increases the chance that additional items such as a pen and notebook leave with Alex, too. As the class-bound student turns the door knob, he takes a calm breath and shuts the door behind him. Assuring himself that his feet are still attached to his legs, he exhales confidently. It is 8:55 a.m. What’s his next five-minute strategy? Run. Like mad. Write Jonathan at fischerjd2@ upmc.edu.

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Back to School: But don’t bother getting too excited Andrew Kaback Columnist Do you have that feeling in your stomach? You know the one: it’s right between dating your best friend’s ex and your secret attraction to Justin Bieber songs. I know I have it and there can be only one explanation: school is about to start. Now, I know that many of you may be thinking that returning to campus sounds almost as good as the Pirates returning to at least average play. But I assure you, now that I’ve had a couple of years under my belt, going back to school is awful. It’s like “being called on at a Daniel Tosh stand-up” meets “looking through internet photographs of friends who once dressed up as Joe Paterno for a football game.” It always sounds like such a good idea. After all, we normally think about the good stuﬀ: newfound friends, endless parties and shunning the guy on your ﬂoor that thinks Antoon’s isn’t as good as Sorrento’s. But you know what

else sounded like a good idea once? “Hey Zuckerberg, we should really think about taking this Facebook thing public.” While I usually side with House Lannister (c’mon, who doesn’t love the little guy?), I must agree that going back to school means only one thing: winter is coming. It will be so cold. The first two weeks of school are deceptive, freshmen. The leaves do look pretty for about a week after classes begin, but then they die. If the new school year means anything, it is that you had better remember to wear a coat. All of those exciting feelings you think you have entering the first semester evaporate as soon as the first snow falls. Sure, there’s a millisecond where we all think that sledding in Schenley will be fun, but the realization of walking to class in the wind and snow gets rid of that pretty quickly. And then there’s the whole “coat at a party” debate. What do you do with it? Should I awkwardly carry it around all night or leave it in a place where it might get stolen? Ah, I might as

well not go out. Of course, returning to the classroom also means that we must re-enter the holy of holies in annoyances: group projects. Every time I see the tweets about returning to the good old 4-1-2, my soul cringes

So my advice for you as the school year begins? Make this one count. at the thought of another introductory class syllabus reading: 30 percent of your grade will be based on group work. Thirty percent? Is that some kind of Walmart rollback gimmick gone wrong? Not only is group work worth a larger portion of my grade than the winning percentage of the Pitt football team in games that actually

mean something, I also have no control over what the other people in my group decide to do. Has any professor on the face of the Earth ever worked with other people? Have you ever tried doing a slideshow with the kid who hasn’t been to class for eight weeks? Ultimately, people forget that outside of the shenanigans, college life primarily consists of doing schoolwork. Schoolwork sucks! Homework, essays and midterms line up like there’s free bread during the Depression. Then there’s clubs and organizations, interviewing for jobs and internships and trying to stay sane all the while. The ﬁrst week back, with its limited homework and classes devoted to the rules of the course, is certainly the best, but after that, your life is full of school at every corner. When we can manage a week without a bomb threat, we start to feel like we would do anything for summer. It’s one thing to have a work schedule, but the endless unknown about whether or not you’ve studied enough for a

test drives us all mad. OK, so maybe I really don’t think that school is that bad. I guess what I really hate about the end of the summer is that it means we’re all one year closer to the end. It brings up the scary questions about what we want to do when we grow up and how we are planning to make it all work. There’s a world out there that’s consumed with rent payments, work schedules and where to buy groceries, and I want to be ready for it. Unfortunately, the beginning of a school year forces me to remember that there will be an end to our time at Pitt. So my advice for you as the school year begins? Make this one count. Maybe it’s a new club that you should join or a hobby that you should take up. Pretty soon we’re all going to be staring down adulthood, and you want to be sure that there are no regrets. So stay away school year. Give me a bit more summertime. Write Andrew at aak47@pitt. edu.

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THE STAMATTACK

New graduates should take a lesson from the Pirates Nick Stamatakis Assistant Opinions Editor The Great Recession and the J ohn Cusack thriller “2012” both share similar philoso phies and economic ideas. It’s 2007 (or 2011) and everything is going great. Adjusting wages are keeping involuntary unemployment at zero and markets are properly valuing risky assets (or Los Angeles isn’t engulfed in ﬂames). You can have a job (and Cusack can stick to capturing the at tention of window-bound valedictorians). Then one day the ground literally disappears from beneath your feet. An earthquake, or in the case of the economy, a gross misallocation of capital, has destroyed the calm. Cusack has to go from passi vely holding a boom box overhead to driving into the wilderness to save his family. Previously safe jobs in services and manufacturing disappear as the economy tumultuously shifts resources to other sectors aided b y outsourcing and automation. The time it tak es to recover from this shifting constitutes a recession. I never saw “2012,” so I don’t know if Cusack’s character lived to see his famil y live a happy, fruitful life. Luckily, unlike in the mo vies, things in the economy tend to settle do wn pretty quickly: recessions are usually short enough

that workers find other uses for their skills and eventually move to other sectors. But the Great Recession of 2007 doesn’t seem to want to end. Month after month of anemic jobs numbers leads one to think we will forever be John Cusack, running from a giant ball of fire. Millions of displaced workers and future w orkers have not yet found their new sector in the economy. This past summer has offered some new pop-culture insight into this phenom enon that sug gests both good and bad prospects to those entering the job market. The good new s is that mark ets do clear — eventually — and new sectors and technologies can provide a basis for success. The bad news, however, is that it might take 20 years — just ask the Pitts burgh Pirates. The Pirates’ death fall in the earl y ’90s, after all, was the result of the ground falling out from underneath them. The team was like today’s unemployed mill worker or former

customer service agent. Everything they used to be good at w as no longer v aluable, and what everybody else had was driving success. That thing everybody else had, of course, was money. The mid- to late ’90s saw the dominance of the New York Yankees, whose payroll alone could purc hase the entire economy of the O ceanic island nation of Kiribati. Copycat teams needed to grow their pa yrolls, too. In this era of baseball, you needed cash to get ahead. The severity and suddenness of this basic fact caught many s m a l l- m a r ke t teams off guard. They couldn’t make the same strategic decisions as the big teams, y et had no other alternative strategies to cope with the new environment. Luckily, this stagnation w asn’t permanent. Starting with the Oakland A thletics, teams slowly worked to fi nd new, smarter, more efficient ways to win. This meant less focus on big, expensi ve hitters and more

What are the lessons the American worker can learn from the Pirates? For one, change is a must.

focus on developing young, often cheap, pitching talent. It meant teams had to fun damentally change everything about their growth strategies. Today, the Pirates have lifted themselves off the cellar floor. While big money still undoubtedly dominates the game, small-market teams are proving there are other w ays to thrive. What are the lessons the American worker can learn from the Pirates? For one, change is a must. The recession has fundamentally transformed the necessary skill set required to be in the workforce. Jobs requiring a high school education are o verseas. Computers do jobs requiring only good organizational skills or focus. We need to learn how to add value in ways that only humans in America can add value. These value-added attributes are things like problem-solving skills — real ones, not fake resumé-quality skills — and communica tion skills. We need to learn ho w to be the Pirates, and find ways to make the most with what we have. But the bad news from the realm of baseball is that the natural ev olution from outdated and broken to efficient and successful is not guaranteed to be fast. It is always a case of two steps forward, one step bac k (or, to

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If you need a friend, talk to an election registration volunteer draws nearer. For the incoming freshmen, this is the first chance that political activists have to reach out to you. As you’re cornered in Towers Lobby in the coming weeks, there Take a minute and think back to freshman are a few things y ou should consider be year of high sc hool. As you walked to the fore you become very interested in y our bus with your clarinet tucked away in your iPod or realize that y ou are suddenly just backpack to hide your inner band geek, the so unbelievably busy with something in the images of those television shows about high complete opposite school became real. You preferred to not direction. have your head stuffed down that toilet in Registering to the last stall of the second floor bathroom. vote is a quick and Being a freshman sucked. easy process. You Now, think of freshman year of college. take the form, fi ll Literally nobody cares what you’re doing or in a few boxes with who you are, let alone your age. See, in col- your basic infor lege, everyone leaves everyone else alone. mation, hand it to But there is one big man on campus target- the volunteer and ing the freshmen. Actually, there are two. leave. Not sure how Every year, during the last da ys of Au- to write “ Tower gust and into early September, the College C” in the address Democrats and College Republicans take box? Don’t worry. to the streets of Oakland, working hard to The registration get students — especially freshmen — to volunteers will have a list of the addresses register to vote. Insert a sigh of relief here, for the campus residence halls to mak e it that’s not so bad! This is a completely differ- painless. Whether you’re registering for ent situation than the bullies you avoided on the first time or changing your address to your way to sixth period once upon a time. “Pittsburgh, Pa.,” the entire song and dance It’s no secret that the success of an takes less time than catching an elevator in election relies heavily on the v otes of the the Cathedral of Learning. under-30 population; both sides are des Voting is a cool, grown-up thing to do. perately vying for our v otes as November You’re 18, you’re in college now and you’re

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picking the people who are running our country. This year is more important than most — it’s a presidential election year. By registering to vote, you can pick the person you want to be the President of the United States of America for the next four years. I’m sure there are some nifty T-shirts, stickers and other flashy swag for you to advertise your elite sta tus as a v oter, as well. You will feel scholarly, as your choice for the best candidate is surely the correct one. You will feel im portant when you press the flash ing “vote” button with your index finger, solidifying your choice for the election. You will feel American. Simply put, we are the age group most affected by the decisions of our elected officials because we are going to be around to see the outcome of the selected administration’s decisions. The bills that are proposed and passed in Washington are important to our generation in that — whether y ou want a particular law or not — we will see

You, at 18, have the right and the power to let your voice be heard on policies that matter to you by voting.

it in action, whereas our grandparents ’ generation may not. Though the senior citizen population is notoriously the most likely to vote, the issues will stay with us, logically speaking, for muc h longer. You, at 18, have the right and the po wer to let your voice be heard on policies that matter to you by voting. And even if your party or candidate doesn’t win, wouldn’t you rather be able to say that you voted against something instead of pinning the hundredth perfect bouquet of ﬂowers to your “Dream Wedding <3!” board on Pinterest? The groups of students asking y ou to register to vote may seem intimidating, or even annoying, but don’t you feel kind of popular? The Democrats want you. So do the Republicans. You could check the “Independent” box if you don’t have a favorite or a preference. As a citizen of the U.S. and as a new or lifelong resident of Pennsylvania, you’re wanted. Exercise the right that people have fought for on U.S. soil — the right that others continue to ﬁght for elsewhere. It’s a powerful move. Do not hide from the registration “bullies,” no matter how persistent they may be. They’re doing something good. Email Claire at cve3@pitt.edu. For voter registration information, visit votespa.com. The registration deadline is Oct. 9.

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In favor of increased spending, Obama laid out more speciﬁc long-term plans, calling for a 1.5 percent increase in basic research, although notably keeping Na onal Ins tutes of Health funding ﬂat while expanding energy and Na onal Science Founda on funding.

Perhaps surprisingly, Romney is in favor of maintaining or increasing research funding, calling basic research and technology “a crucial engine for innova on in our economy.” 1

The president’s narra ve that Romney wants to cut government-sponsored research isn’t true. In fact, neither candidate likely offers significant differences in research policy, although Romney’s stance on human embryonic stem-cell research is a bit vague. 1. “A Chance for Every Child,” May 23, 2012. h p://www.mi romney.com/blogs/mi s-view/2012/05/chance-every-child-0 2. “President Obama’s Blueprint for Keeping College Affordable and Within Reach for All Americans,” January 24, 2012. h p://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/27/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-blueprint-keeping-college-affordable-and-wi 3. “Obama Administra on Backs Bankruptcy Op on for Some Student Debt,” Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2012 h p://online.wsj.com/ar cle/SB10000872396390444097904577537390098445700.html

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Obama proposes expanded programs such as “doubling the number of workstudy jobs available,” massively increasing the Perkins Loan program — which provides 5 percent ﬁxed-interest-rate loans — and introducing prices that “shi aid away from colleges that fail to keep net tui on down.” 2

Promising to streamline federal aid programs, he promises to “refocus Pell Grant dollars on the students that need them most” while invi ng the private sector to play a larger role in “providing informa on, ﬁnancing, and educa on.” 1

Without more concrete examples of private innova on in higher educa on from Romney, it’s hard to compare outcomes. With federal programs popular, however, Romney will likely not have the poli cal capital to make cuts. Instead, this is a choice between steady funding from Romney and possibly increased funding from the president.

The administra on has urged Congress to “make it easier for people to discharge a por on of student debt” by allowing ﬁnancially troubled students with private loans to declare bankruptcy. No such proposal has been made for federally supported loans. 3

Romney hasn’t made any men on of this in campaign events, but advoca ng what could be interpreted as a bailout for student debt could seem hypocri cal, considering his tougher stances on the automo ve and housing industries.

October surprise predic on: Obama announces a plan to allow college students to declare bankruptcy on debt, thereby erasing poten ally years of payments for millions. The prospect of free money for college graduates would send youth enthusiasm ﬂying; Republicans might ﬁnd it impossible to alienate an en re genera on by opposing any form of debt forgiveness.

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Music not just noise, but a primal source of emotion Jonathan Fischer Columnist

How many times have you heard the tragic strokes of a violin or the thumping sounds of a bass drum and felt moved? Music is composed, tec hnically, of a combination of sounds and rhythms that generate a wide variety of real emotional responses. Though those responses might differ from listener to listener, it seems increasingl y evident that a strong connection between music and emotional health is a common human ex perience — so much so that it’s arguably vital to our emotional health and well-being that we take the time to appreciate that many aspects of our bod y and mind revolve around music. Perhaps the best argument for the undeniable relationship between rhythmic tones and the human psyche is that most people surround themselves with music whenever possible. How many students do y ou see with headphones on while they shuf-

fle to their next class? When was the last time you were at a party without some sort of rh ythm playing in the background? It’s not by mistake that our culture embraces sound. Our heartbeat is the constant music or beat of life. Before that, it was our mother’s pulse informing us during our earliest period of growth. Changes in these pulses were and are deeply significant to us. Movements we conduct on an everyday basis, suc h as walking, breathing and blinking continue this identification with rhythm and are often reflected in music. Clearly, as human beings, we are driven and affected b y music. These motions are con nected to emotions, and b y better understanding the tw o, we can better understand our health. University of California, San Diego psychologist Vladimir Konecni — author of “Does music induce emotion? A theoretical and methodological analysis” — agrees. He has written that “the idea that music gi ves rise

to thoughts about significant others, about emotionally rich social situations and one’s past experiences” does in fact play a part in the “trans formation of heard sound into emotional state via memories and contempla tion.” And this connection isn’t one that stops early in life — it seems to affect emotional health longer than almost anything else. My mother was an activities director for an Alzheimer ’s care center, where she observed that primitive songs and melodies evoked the most commonl y observed responses from patients. The Alzheimer’s victims, in their unfortunate states, could repeat all verses of songs from their youth from memory due to communication through music. When the music stopped playing, so did the patient’s singing and awareness. There was hardly a need for a doctor to apply numerical data or fill out a prescription to show that the elderl y benefit from musical communication. Not to mention, it’s comforting to know

that there is something w e can hold on to. Inside our thoughts, even in old age, is a deep-seated connection to our o wn musical beginnings. In a way, it’s a natural safeguard for the purpose of keeping ourselves healthy and sane. People who are not pa ying attention to the rh ythm and music of their surroundings to expand their emotional reper toires risk becoming unhealthy. While it might be hard to gather numerical data regarding the types of responses compared to the number of emotions a person might experience, a lack of musical stimuli must be detrimental. Just as muscles atrophy without physical stimulation, so does human well-being deteriorate without emotional stimulation. While doctors might define health with vital statistics on a pad of paper, the more appropriate and meaningful definition includes a diverse range of emotions evoked over a lifetime. Sometimes, we don’t know why we feel better after listening

to music, but there is a definite sense of an emotional response generated by listening. If we are truly to be able to live in a state of well-being, we need to pay attention to sounds and the music around us. It could even be said that our survi val depends on it, as our emotions pla y a huge part of how we define ourselves. How can there be a true sense of health and emotional well-being without a need to seek external musical stimuli? While we might not know why we associate certain emotions with certain types of music, w e should at least recognize the connection between the two, as well as the health benefits that emotional awareness — and consequently, music — can provide. And if you get a bit jittery like I do when attempting to sing at a karaoke bar, just remember that you might be adding a health y new emotional experience to your listeners’ arsenals — compliments of your voice. Write Jonathan at fischer jd2@upmc.edu.

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COLUMN

What did you do this summer? Consider writing it down Elizabeth Weisel Columnist Elementary school was a simpler time. During the sc hool year, we had nothing to look forward to except summer, a time when our days could be ﬁlled with bike rides and ice cream trucks and soccer leagues. Maybe for a week or two we’d go on vacation with our families to places like Gettysburg or Cape May, and then the next thing we’d know we’d be back to school in the fall. Inevitably, within the ﬁrst week back to school, our new teac hers would make us write the one essay we wrote every year: “What I Did This Summer.” And as w e wrote those essays, we took a long, comprehensive look at how the fun that made up our summer days relaxed us and prepared us for the new year. So why don’t we write those essays anymore? What would change if we did? I’m going to argue that a revival of the summer essay would better prepare students to return to school in the fall semester, even if we are long out of elementary sc hool, so that we can take time for self-re-

ﬂection. The first reason w e need to set apart time for self -reﬂection is to slow ourselves down. Gone are the days of spending our summers running around the neigh borhood chasing our neighbor ’s dog for hours on end. Instead, the pressures of summer jobs and internships plague us, so w e’re constantly pushing ourselves to do more. I have worked at least two jobs during eac h of the past three summers, and I’ve barely had time for m yself. It’s easy to get caught up in everything you have to do and forget the meaning behind the experiences. When we take time to sit down and write about the things that we’ve done and what we’ve learned from them, we allow ourselves a chance to sit back, relax and enjoy the learning process. Then we gain a better appreciation of how hard we worked or what

our work has meant. Ma ybe you worked a job that you really hated, but didn’t notice because you were too busy to realize you didn’t like what you were doing. Or maybe it was the opposite: you loved your work but got caught up in how much there was to do.

during the summer. Now when I think back to that summer, I realize that I really disliked one of my jobs and loved another, and these realizations changed the course of my career path. Onl y after taking time to refl ect did I recognize the things that I learned from my summer jobs. But summer isn ’t just about w ork. It’s also a time for v acation and spending time with friends and fam ily. The other reason we need to take time for a self-reflective essay is to soak in the calm ing energy that graced our summers — even if it w as sparse. F or some reason, in the summer, we are much more willing to spend an extra night out with our friends to lie in the grass and stargaze. When we’re in school, the stress of constant homework can weigh down our evenings and even our weekends. We forget what it w as like in the summer to sacrifi ce a

I’m going to argue that a revival of the summer essay would better prepare students to return to school in the fall semester, even if we are long out of elementary school ... Last summer I w orked three jobs, and while I w as working I didn’t think the tasks held muc h signiﬁcance for me. I liked one over the other two, but not so noticeably

couple of hours of sleep for the sake of a fun night with friends. If we make the eff ort to refl ect on the time we spent relaxing over the summer, we can recognize that it was good for our minds, bodies and souls to take time off even when it meant a little bit of sacrifice. If we record our memories from sum mer nights we have something to go back to when we’re feeling the stress of our daily lives and remember the fresh scent of the summer. We can let the memory of summer sink deep into our skin and remind us at the beginning of the sc hool year that whenever we get faced with huge workloads or time-consuming jobs, we know that there is another summer coming. Even though it might seem ju venile, taking time to sit down and write an essay simply titled “What I Did This Summer ” can give us a chance to refl ect, slow down and remember the feel of summer . When we take the time to do these things, we are better prepared for the fall and the beginning of a new school year. Contact Elizabeth at eaw62@ pitt.edu.

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SONGS the recession or hourly updates on the BP oil spill in 2010. But this summer, the songs made an appropriate soundtrack as I passed the signs of a country getting back on its feet. In surprisingly pretty Cleveland, progress is manifest in the reinvented West Side, where each week is marked by the grand openings of restaurants and other new businesses. In small towns that sometimes seem little more than exit signs along the interstate, there are factories, such as GM’s Chevy Cruze assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, working at full production. Across the hills of Pennsylvania, old strip mines are overshadowed by miles of newly constructed — and far more sustainable — windmills. Even the spots of traﬃc brought on by highway construction and repairs were signs of progress. From chart-topping veterans like Katy Perry to the wholesome teens of One Direction, the upbeat music does indeed match the signs of American progress this summer. The occasionally terrifying Nicki Minaj shed her creepier alter egos in the song “Starships” to encourage us to “reach up and touch the

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com sky.” A band fittingly named Fun. reminded us that “We Are Young,” while One Direction, the summer’s biggest boy band, told us that “What Makes You Beautiful” is simply not realizing that you are indeed beautiful. With cheesy lines like “I wanna give your heart a break,” these tunes are optimistic enough to serve as wedding vows at a shotgun wedding. Even recently divorced Katy Perry highlighted her ability to get over heartbreak in her newest hit, “Wide Awake.” But you don’t need to be on a highway to jive with the summertime tunes. In Oakland, a spirit of progress consumes the campus. On a stroll down Fifth Avenue, students pass the old entrance of the nowrelocated Book Center and the quick construction of a residence hall. In Alumni Hall, the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid has a new chief enrollment officer for the first time in three decades. Even the touch-ups to sidewalks along the Cathedral or Schenley Quad remind us that this is a season of progress. Off campus, we are treated to new restaurants such as Hello Bistro and The Bagel Factory. Even Bigelow Boulevard got a fresh level of tar. Things were so good in Pittsburgh this summer that the perpetually defeated Pirates adopted a winning attitude. The Buccos

entered the All-Star break leading the division, and center fielder Andrew McCutchen has become a viable candidate for the MVP award. Last summer, the soundtrack to the Women’s World Cup was Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory,” which seemed especially fitting, as the U.S. team made it just to the edge before losing in a shootout thriller to Japan. Japan received accolades for its ability to turn out a championship team despite overcoming the devastation at home brought on by an earthquake and a tsunami. This year, we expected a great deal from Olympians, and those expectations matched the music of the summer. The official song of the London Olympic games was “Survival” by Muse, in which the opening line is a confident declaration that “life’s a race / and I am gonna win.” Summer smash hits will always be upbeat and positive — it’s the nature of the season. This year it is refreshing to have an upbeat environment to match. But before long, we will find ourselves making study playlists again for long stays in Hillman Library and Posvar Hall. So throw some Katy Perry and Justin Bieber onto your iPhone, because if we can’t keep summer, we can at least keep its upbeat attitude. Contact Rosie at romckinley@ gmail.com.

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PIRATES accurately describe the Pirates for the first 15 years, one step forward and off a cliff ). This insight is important in understanding the role government has in helping workers transition. Affluent business magnate Mark Cuban could have bought the Pirates and shoveled millions of dollars on a team, as it was speculated he would in 2009. We might have won more, but we would also be unprofitable — an unacceptable long-term solution. The potential Mark Cuban model was not unlike programs ranging from unemployment insurance extensions to increased food stamps — nobody would be getting closer to the new, improved versions of themselves they must inevitably become. Instead, government should be all about transforming essential things concerning the way our society is structured. Strategies must change and adapt. Those solutions are too numerous to mention here, but all revolve around a key point: you must plan for tomorrow, not for today to never end. And on that note, I guess “2012” and the economy are different. Write Nick at nps130@gmail. com.

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GOOGLE on the Street View bandwagon, Pitt should first consider some veritable concerns. Mainly, privacy could become an issue. Yes, on one hand the algorithms Google uses to blur faces, obscure identifying information and avoid unsightly visuals aren’t perfect (this isn’t so much of a problem, since Google supposedly bends to whatever terms universities set and maintains an online form to accept complaints from users about content to be removed). On the other hand, several government organizations around the world — including the U.S. Federal Communications Commission — have challenged Google with the allegation that the company’s vehicles have collected data beyond photographs (such as personal data from surrounding open Wi-Fi networks), and partnering universities therefore may want to worry about data privacy. But, in the face of the obvious benefits, such concerns are surmountable. We’ve already allowed Google into so many other aspects of our lives, sharing Pitt’s walkways with it wouldn’t be so different. Write Matt at matthew.schaff@ gmail.com.

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FIREWORKS iPhone in the air for 30 minutes. In other words, we take all these pictures for almost no obvious reason. We are all just capturing these leisure events for posterity’s sake, even if we know full well that, after a point, nobody will care — including us. This is a key insight regarding this endless documentation. We increasingly can’t enjoy our leisure time without making it someho w about something more than just enjoying our leisure time. Everything else in our lives, after all, unilaterally exists to create some beneﬁt in the future.

We go to school to improve our chances at a good job. We go to work to improve our financial condition and improve our chances at living comfortably. We date for sex and emotional connections. We pray to increase our chances of reaching salvation. Thus, when we inevitably reach the times in our life that ostensibly represent the payoff, we find ourselves lost. The moments that w e should be enjoying, the fruit of the y ears of schooling, work and relationship building, are incomprehensible. Faced with just experiencing a moment, we reach for our iPhones and make even these moments a purposeful acti vity to create an awesome historical record for our mental bucket lists. That is to say, everything must be a means to some end. Even our fun, carefree times when, encroached with photography equipment, become nothing more than pleasure we methodologically catalog and anthologize. So as the school year begins, here’s one piece of advice to help combat this: put do wn the camera. Take photojournalist Nick Danziger’s idea and take only one picture a day. Doing so can help take some of the purposeorientation out of your life — something that we could all use. Y our goal in college isn ’t to have as many experiences as possible. The goal isn’t to look back someday and remember each of the 1,432 crazy things you did. Such a target turns your college experience into a means to an end. The secret is realizing that the means is the end. Email Nick all your fuzzy fireworks photos at nps130@gmail.com.

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NO RUTS gether and taking a short trip on a weekend. Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia are two of several places close enough that they ’re easy to travel to for a short amount of time, and they’ll provide a change of pace from Pittsburgh. For a cheap and fun way to travel, take Megabus to visit friends at other col leges in cities near Pittsburgh. Or, to bring the spontaneity of summer into a day in the city, get out of Oakland and see something in a neighborhood that’s diﬀerent or outside of your normal routine. 5. Learn something interesting or unusual Summer is the ideal season to use free time to learn a new, interesting skill — but why stop there? Taking intellectual and creative spontaneity with you throughout the year can make it feel lik e summer all the time. During the school year, use space for electives in your schedule to learn to play a musical instrument, throw pottery or take

65 a class on an obscure topic. 6. Volunteer It’s a lot easier to ﬁ nd time to volunteer during the summer. But even during the school year, volunteering every now and then is both incredibly helpful to the community and a major mood-booster. Helping those who are less fortunate can be incredibly helpful during moments when you feel like the stress of midterms will overtake your life, because volunteering can help you to see beyond yourself. Planning to volunteer can help you manage your time and strike a balance between work and play — an ele ment which most of our falls and winters could use. Even though summer is coming to a close, the best parts of the season don’t have to go into hibernation. With the right mindset and schedule, you can break out of the academic year’s library/party/library scene. So this year, try to make your fall and winter a little more like summer — tanning bed optional. Write Naomi at neb30@pitt.edu.

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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT

FEATURE

Caliban keeps rare and used books relevant Anna Weldon A&E Editor

When John Schulman began working at The T uckers, a used book shop in Squirrel Hill during the late 1970s, he didn’t foresee himself turning his passion for books into a career. Instead, Schulman attended Pitt as an undergraduate stud ying English Writing and later returned for his graduate degree in education, planning to become a teacher. “I decided I w asn’t really a natural teacher,” Schulman said. “I was selling used books to pa y rent.” But today, Schulman has converted his original job into a ca reer. He and his wife, Emily Hetzel, co-own Caliban Book Shop , a popular local bookstore selling used and rare books. Located on South Craig Street in Oakland, Caliban Book Shop is a local treasure that breaks from the traditional bookstore layout. The bookstore is an un likely establishment that sup plies a variety of commodities. Different from the typical modern bookstore model that is currently suffering under the hand of electronic reading devices, Caliban remains true to its mission: to sell used and rare books. Schulman and Hetzel — daughter of F rederick Hetzel, the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press for 40 y ears — opened the bookshop in 1991, and today both act as co-owners. “I married into Pitts burgh book royalty by marrying [Frederick Hetzel’s] younger daughter,” Schulman said. Caliban Book Shop houses more than 40,000 titles of rare and used books. Selling books about philosophy, photography and history, among many other topics, the bookstore has a wide selection that encompasses a multitude of interests. Currently, Caliban Book Shop is selling fi rst-edition titles of books, such as “SlaughterhouseFive” by Kurt Vonnegut for $1,000 and “On the R oad” by Jack Kerouac for $300 . Both the store and its patrons benefi t from the intrigue surrounding collectors’

items. Schulman explained that if a modern-day literary classic is first published after 1920, it is expected to have the dust jacket on to be sold for its maximum v alue as a collectible. Without it, the book sells for significantly less — as is the case with the fi rst edition of Kerouac’s famous novel. But that doesn’t take away from the volumes’ intrinsic value. “They are hot commodities. They’re still considered rare books,” Schulman said. Within the bookshop also exists Desolation Row — a record shop opened in 2004 b y store manager Kristofer Collins. Collins, a ‘ 96 Pitt graduate with a degree in religious stud -

“[Books are] still one of the great middle-class collectibles.” John Schulman ies and American literature, began working at Caliban Book Shop almost a decade ago . As a long-time worker at the bookshop and frequent visitor prior to his employment, Collins has seen the store develop and evolve over the years. In 2004, Collins pitched the idea for a record shop inside the store to promote the music that the bookshop played throughout the day. “I turned 30 and panic ked, and thought I needed to be adult and do something. So I opened a record shop,” he said. The corner that the record shop now sits in used to be home to a few unnoticed book cases. Customers tended to k eep away from this “blind spot” of books, so the area was comically named Desolation Row. When Collins opened his record shop, he placed it in this previousl y neglected area, and the name of the corner stuck with toda y’s record purveyor. The bookshop is also a member

of the Antiquarian Booksellers ’ Association of America ( ABAA). Working to promote interest in rare and antique books since 1949, the ABAA is the main pro fessional organization of book dealers and appraisers. The organization specializes in rare books. Schulman has invested his time in appraisals, as w ell. As an ap praiser for estate, legal, tax and insurance purposes, Schulman decided to take his gig public as an appraiser on “Antiques Roadshow” — a PBS television pro gram that takes a collection of appraisers from leading auction houses and independent dealers to do appraisals of antiques and collectibles. This summer he even traveled to Corpus Christi, Texas, to offer appraisals. Through his encounters with other antiques, Schulman has realized the importance and affordability of collecting rare books. “They’re still one of the great middle-class collectibles,” he said. Unlike other collectibles — for example, paintings — that onl y produce one fi rst edition, which sells for an extremely high price, books are issued with thousands of first editions. Over the years, first edition copies of famous books continually pop up, ready to be sold. Books lik e Kerouac’s “On the Road” were typically produced in the thousands, Schulman explained, and the current cop y at Caliban is one of 15 copies that have gone through the store. Because of the bookshop’s less mainstream appeal, Sc hulman doesn’t expect the growth of the competitive new book business to have a huge impact on Caliban Book Shop. “It’s a diff erent economy,” he said. And Collins agrees. Electronic reading devices may affect bookstores that sell newl y published books, but Caliban Book Shop has dodged this latest trend. “The Kindle and the N ook haven’t really affected this end of the book business,” Collins said. “It’s a diff erent side of the busi ness that doesn’t get as aff ected

Caliban

Patrons browse Caliban’s eclectic assortment of books. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

Colorful novels line the shelves of the cozy store. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

Caliban Book Shop regularly entertains customers with its inventory. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Hello Bistro stacks up to other restaurants in Eat’n Park franchise Jeff Ihaza Staff Writer

Hello Bistro 3605 Forbes Avenue Open every day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Getting a seat at the newly opened Hello Bistro can be quite challenging — and with good reason. Located on Forbes Avenue next to the recently relocated Campus Bookstore, the new restaurant is a flurry of modern, casual dining at a reasonable price. It’s no surprise then, that it took me three visits to muster up the patience necessary to wait for a seat during the restaurant’s lunch rush, during which visitors can expect the salad bar line to be packed shoulder-toshoulder with hungry patrons. Hello Bistro is owned by the

Eat’n Park Hospitality Group and represents the company’s second foray into Oakland, after more refined and slightly pricier The Porch opened in Schenley Plaza in November 2011. Eat’n Park is something of a staple in the western Pennsylvania region. The company, which was founded in 1949, has built a reputation for great burgers and community-oriented vibes, but it now has a more urban counterpart. According to Mark Broadhurst, director of concept development for Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Hello Bistro has been in the works for almost three years. “We knew we wanted to do kind of an urban spin off Eat’n Park, with some of the more popular items, like our burgers and salads, at the forefront,” Broadhurst said. Whereas traditional Eat’n Park restaurants are larger and generally housed in a free-standing building, Hello Bistro is

Bistro

New local restaurant Hello Bistro boasts about its extensive salad bar and menu. Luv Purohit | Assistant Visual Editor

Television’s hit shows heated up in the summer months Five hit series unleash the drama, television becomes entertainment haven this summer summer shows. Here are ﬁve show recaps from this summer that document the emotional highs and lows of television’s hit series. “Mad Men”

The men and women at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce faced a series of changes and catastrophes in the fifth season of “Mad Men.” MCT Campus

The Pitt News Staff With the variety of hit series that began and ended this summer, there was plenty to watch when the heat became too much to handle.

From the end of the ﬁfth season of “Mad Men” to the beginning of new shows such as “The Newsroom” and “Political Animals,” every hit channel seems to have a drama for true television fans.

Viewers watched as Roger tripped on LSD, Daenerys hatched the only three dragons in Westeros and Walter White turned into a meth king. To keep the drama in order, we compiled a list of our favorite

The fifth season of AMC’s “Mad Men” took fans of the hit series on a winding series of plot twists and cast changes, from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce dramatically losing a partner, to LSD trips, to huge clientele deals and to a lot of infidelity. The season began with Don Draper and his ex-secretary-turnedwife Megan beginning their new life together both at home and in the office, which continues to function under the predominantly male infrastructure. Throughout the season, however, various social norms begin to evolve, and societal issues such as gender and race are addressed even more intricately than before. As always, each episode focused on a character’s personal struggle both in and outside of the office. Over the course of the season,

viewers saw Pete cheat on his wife and struggle with clients, Joan and Roger divorce their spouses, Peggy struggle constantly with her work and Don and Megan’s tumultuous relationship, which somehow makes its way into the firm. But probably the most shocking turn of events came at the end of the season (though it was certainly foreshadowed throughout), when Lane steals money from SCDP, is caught and then commits suicide in the office, leaving only a succinct suicide note — his resignation letter. Taking his position as partner at the firm is Joan, who recently became a mother. She returned to SCDP after the birth of her son, Kevin, and after working at her previous position for the majority of the season, she encountered a compromising situation with a client whom she used as leverage to become a partner. The season ended with open storylines for each character, setting them up for a promising fu-

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August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com FOOD COLUMN

Ditch microwavable noodles, reinvent college cooking Quinn Keaney Staff Writer The realm of college cooking has long been dominated by quick and easy staples such as powdery Easy Mac and whichever box of cereal was cheapest that week. Taste buds everywhere routinely suﬀer the unfortunate fate of munching on stale popcorn and last night’s leftover French fries, all because these options don’t put too much of a burden on the typically empty college wallet. Never fear, though, because cooking in college has been made over from a.m. to p.m. A good alternative to a run-of-the-mill breakfast cereal is fruit and yogurt. Whether you’re feeling kind of fancy and want to turn basic yogurt into a classy parfait, or you only have a few precious minutes before your 9 a.m. class, it’s an easy way to whip up something healthy and delicious without requiring the use of an oven or stove. Cut up and mix in your favorite fruit for an extra pop of ﬂavor and texture.

Recipes Vegetable Stir-Fry with Rice 1/2 cup rice, dry 1/2 tablespoon olive oil 1/4 red pepper, cut in strips 1/2 green pepper, cut in strips

2/3 cup sugar snap peas 1 cup cut broccoli Teriyaki or soy sauce, added according to taste

Follow instructions on the rice package, adjusting for one-half cup of rice. Pour the olive oil into a frying pan and add all of the veggies, then turn on medium heat. Cover and steam for about 10 minutes. Move the veggies around with a spoon occasionally to make sure that the frozen bits hug the bottom of the pan (it’s normal to have some water at the bottom). Drizzle your sauce throughout the pan, covering all vegetables.

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your taste. Move the veget sauce covers a ables around with a w ood ll of them even en spoon to m ly. ake sure the Then let sit for five minutes on low heat. With a bit more ef fort, the package will nally b e over. dTay s of li ving from care pack impress yourfifr hese eas age to care better way to iends with Emeril-esquye recipes are a great way to stay healthy w c ithout maxingooking skills, and an ev en out your credit card.

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Pittsburgh venues vary with different atmospheres and acts Concert venues invite a host of acts, offering a variety of music for Pittsburghers

Brillobox oﬀers an intimate v enue to see up-and-coming artists perform with a kind of passion that is often lost with big-name artists who are ﬁlthy rich. Throw in the added bonuses of its full menu, stellar Sunda y brunch, starving artist’s vegetarian supper and a creati ve bar, and it ’s easy to see wh y Brillobox is so popular with the indie crowd.

Andrew Gretchko Staff Writer As Pittsburgh continues to pla y an everincreasing role in the broader music scene, its countless concert v enues have been ﬂooded by artists and fans alike. While the idea of being able to see some of your favorite artists can be ex citing, it can also be a little daunting. Where do you start? What venues are best? Here are ﬁve venues that locals should get to know.

Altar Bar

Stage AE More than likely, this is where people’s favorite artists will be performing. The two-year-old concert hall located in the shadows of Heinz Field on the North Shore has already become a fan fa vorite after hosting artists such as Childish Gambino, Modest Mouse, Feist and Death Cab for Cutie. Worried about getting tickets to such indemand shows? With a maximum capacity of 2,400 spectators for its indoor sho ws and more than 5,500 for outdoor events, Stage AE caters to the fans, gi ving them the opportunity to watch the band they’ve

Stage AE packs in the fans at this summer’s Girl Talk concert. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

always dreamt of seeing live. Brillobox For those who aren ’t as interested in mainstream music, Bloomﬁeld’s Brillobox

This one is as eclectic as they come. Located in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, the Altar Bar is a former -church-turnedconcert-venue, complete with stained glass windows, up to 650 rowdy fans, and some of the best local music in Pittsburgh. Serving up a wide variety of music, ranging from underground hip-hop to rock, the Altar Bar has hosted artists such as Action Bronson, Manchester Orchestra and Fuel, and will play host to artists suc h as Big K.R.I.T. and Neon Trees this fall.

Mr. Smalls Funhouse is one of Pittsburgh’s many popular indie music venues. The word “funhouse” doesn’t quite do With a slew of artists the majority of us Mr. Smalls justice. have never heard of as well as a number of Venues 88 bigger indie artists, such as Neon Indian,

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City has various places for people to move to the Latin beat Rebecca Burns Staff Writer Picture this: Latin American beats in the background, strappy high heels and twisting and turning bodies mo ving to the rhythm of the s yncretic combinations of folkloric music. This is salsa. Salsa dancing is an intense and exhila rating way to spend an evening out, and in Pittsburgh, it’s available any night of the week. The salsa community in Pitts burgh welcomes both those with two left feet and those who have been dancing for years. In the last 10 y ears, Loyal Martinez, an independent dance instructor in Pitts burgh, has seen the city ’s salsa dance community explode. Martinez began his involvement with salsa dance in 1 999 and now teaches classes throughout the w eek at a few of the man y salsa ev ents found here. Based out of A bsolute Ballroom, a dance center located in the East End, Martinez not onl y teaches, but also attends many of the other salsa dance socials dur ing the week. “We have a night called A bsolute Salsa,” Martinez said, referring to the Sunday night class at Absolute Ballroom. “Sunday night is targeted toward dancers that want to learn and w ant to practice — and, of course, have a good time, too.”

Local venues host a variety of salsa options f or interested dancers. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

Today’s widely popularized form of salsa music is derived from Cuba. A blend of African beats and Spanis h guitar have developed into various forms of music, one of which grew to include this lively form of dance. Salsa has people moving their waist and hips on top of their quic kly moving feet.

Dancers turn and perform diﬃ cult tricks, making the dance not the most simple of hobbies. Heidi Pullen, Martinez’s dance partner, decided to take up salsa in Pitts burgh after ﬁrst taking a salsa class while studying abroad in Spain. “It was a way for me to get out and prac-

tice my Spanish with the locals, ” Pullen said. Since moving back to the U .S., she’s found a place to tak e lessons and has no w been dancing for ﬁve and a half years. She and Martinez agree that the salsa community becomes lik e a famil y for many people, k eeping them enraptured with the dance. “It’s not like a big sea of people that go. It’s usually the same cro wd, and y ou become friends with these people. E veryone embraces you and wants every new person to learn and enjo y it. There’s like a salsa family, and when y ou keep going out and that salsa family takes you in, it’s just like a diﬀerent lifestyle,” Martinez said. He and Pullen met at Mexico City, a bar and restaurant located D owntown. This venue hosts salsa nights every Wednesday and Saturday. “Mexico City attracts a lot of begin ners and gets them into it,” Pullen said. “It is the big salsa party place that ev eryone goes to have a good time.” Anne Neuhaus, who has been a dancer for most of her life, disco vered salsa this past year after a friend invited her to Mexico City. The venue has become her favorite place. “I love the people there. It ’s like a fam-

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This summer’s best entertainment, from London to Chicago The Pitt News Staff No matter where y ou spent your summer months, the increase in concerts, arts festivals and movie releases likely kept things entertaining. Summer break alw ays plays host to a hearty v ariety of pop -culture events, and without constant homew ork assignments it’s easier to tak e advantage of these recreations. Having attended ev ents both on the other side of the A tlantic and throughout the nation, the Arts and Entertainment writers of The Pitt News compiled a list of some of their fa vorite summer entertainment by writing about ho w these experi ences stood out from the rest. Spanning from music festivals to Rollerblading, this list of attractions demonstrates that y our geographic location in the summer isn ’t likely to limit your enjoyment. Andrew Gretchko Childish Gambino Pittsburgh hosted more than its fair share of concerts this summer , but of all the roc k stars and rappers to come through the city, Georgia’s Childish Gambino put on the best show. Donald Glover, the actor -comedianrapper behind the extra -hype lyrics of

Childish Gambino, came to Pitts burgh on a mission. T outing a li ve band, Childish made good on the promise of his Camp tour, playing the majority of his album Camp for fans at Stage AE, man y of whom arrived hours before the sold-out show on June 18. While opening act Danny Brown might not have lived up to the audience’ s expectations, Childish maintained his reputa tion as a “mastermind” as he performed hits such as “F reaks and Geeks ” while dashing back and forth across the stage. In an attempt to challenge the longtime hype king Busta Rhymes, Childish not only jumped to the beat of eac h song, but also rapped his lyrics directly into the faces of crowd members. As a creati ve genius, Childish didn ’t disappoint, ending the sho w with a free style rap o ver “Rack City” and pro viding sneak-peeks of some of his latest w ork, which was released on the mixtape “R oyalty” in July. The show’s only downside was that, eventually, the fun had to come to an end. When the stage w ent dark and the lights over the audience ﬂ ickered to life, the crowd moaned, not y et ready to gi ve up hope that Childish Gambino w ould return

Pop culture

Donald Glover rocks on stage as his alter eg o, Childish Gambino. C. Taylor Crothers | Bonnaroo

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TPN SUD OKU

From Eastern Europe to Greece, a summer abroad

Greece appears calm during economic struggles. Hope McLaughlin | Staff Writer

Hope McLaughlin Staff Writer On May 26, I left the U.S. with two months in Europe ahead of me. Those two months are behind me no w — I can ’t get them back no matter ho w hard I wish. And if I had them bac k, I wouldn’t spend them differently. In fact, I’d do just the opposite. There is not one moment of my travels that I wouldn’t relive exactly as it had happened. Over the course of m y time abroad, I traveled to 14 European cities in sev en different countries. I completed two different study abroad programs. The first w as a Pitt program new to the U niversity this year, during which my classmates and I studied Romani (Gypsy) music, culture and human rights on a three-week trip throughout central and eastern Europe. After the program ended, I spent time in V ienna and Budapest, Hungary before arri ving in Thessaloniki, Greece for my second program — six weeks at the American C ollege of Thessaloniki, a university in which I was directly enrolled. My experiences on the European con tinent were diverse, to say the very least. I attended a Gypsy music festival in Prague, entered the single former gas chamber that remains intact at the Auschwitz concentration camp, took part in an improvisational musical performance on stage at a punk club in Krakow, mingled with impoverished Gypsy families in the mountains of eastern Slovakia, went to an opera in V ienna and swam in the hot springs of Budapest. Then, according to the rest of the world,

I spent the last two-thirds of my European adventure embracing the culture of a na tion in collapse. Greece: the “imploding ” nation. The rotten troublemaker of the European Union. Trapped in a financial crisis that has affected the euro sev erely, Greece’s poor economic state has sparked nationwide civil unrest, according to the media. As it turns out, the media isn ’t always right. Before you ask me if I saw, heard or participated in any riots, allow me to clear up a few things. Regarding riots: there are none. Granted, I studied in Thessaloniki, located on the Thermaic Gulf in northern Greece, so my experience may have been different if I had spent m y summer in A thens. Prior travels to Greece with my family led me to surmise that anything remotely related to politics, economics and policy takes place in Athens, and it has little to no effect on daily life in the rest of G reece. Studying abroad in Thessaloniki meant I had zero crisis-related concerns that could impact my well-being. In the weeks leading up to m y departure from America, I spent a lot of time on the receiving end of the skeptical eyebrow raise. Avid followers of international news questioned my decision to spend six weeks in a country that is “in turmoil.” My suspicions about the location of political unrest were completely confirmed. According to people from my program who traveled there, Athens does show some signs of unrest, with a slightl y increased

Abroad

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August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com FASHION COLUMN

Liven up college closets with small additions and changes

Brandi Yates of Churchill is a frequent shopper at Avalon Exchange, a consignment shop in Squirrel Hill. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

sheer tops and great used name-brand bags and shoes at a thrift store that cost signifi cantly less money than they would at popular New styles don’t always fit a college budget, chains. Used clothing costs next to nothing and for students interested in maintaining a compared to its original price, but buy ers personal look that coincides with the latest will still get a great look. fashion trends, an updated w ardrobe can Another option for students on a bud cost more money than anticipated. get is to reinvent old clothes through doFortunately, shopping smartly never goes it-yourself projects. Some of the greatest out of style, and there are plenty of options clothing options are currently in your closet, for each fashionista’s college budget. just waiting to be altered and transformed. Thrift stores and secondhand shops are Consider changing the buttons on an old the greatest sources for inexpensive cloth- cardigan or adding a decorative flower to a ing options. Stores such as Avalon Exchange plain T-shirt. Skirts and pants can be easily (in Squirrel Hill) and Goodwill (in the South revamped with hems and stitching. Shorten Side) are fi lled with great buys and stylish full-length pants to mak e a contemporary clothing. Though these stores may not have cropped look that is currently in style. the most recent trends, they do feature a host Your small alterations to simple pieces of vintage options that mirror current styles. can make them more modern-looking while The key to thrifting is time. Shoppers will recreating your wardrobe and enhancing not encounter a good deal immediately upon it dramatically while spending hardl y any entering a thrift store because of the large money. Old pieces made new are the best quantity of clothing in these stores. Second- expansions of your closet, and though it hand shops typically have racks lined with takes a little effort, the final product will be shirts, jackets and pants jammed together worth the work. into a confusing mess. Entering into one of If used clothing and DIY projects don ’t these stores can be daunting at fi rst, and it seem appealing, there are still many options may seem like there is nothing worth wear- for budgeted shoppers. Other stores such as ing despite the many options. Marshalls, T.J.Maxx and Ross have inexpenThrifters should spend an afternoon sive options from popular retailers that have searching through the rac ks for that per - overproduced their products. There, y ou fect outfit. Start at the beginning and work can find the latest styles of expensive name diligently through each article of clothing, brands at discounted prices. slowly examining the quality and sty le of Shoppers frequently rely on finding their each piece. Unfortunately, because all of the favorite name brands in a traditional setting. clothes have been worn previously, some They don’t think outside of the box when it pieces may be stretched and old, lea ving comes to fashion, which puts a severe dent them unfit for wearing. in their wallets. Shopping smartly will save Also, these stores off er a lot of vintage you money and help to fi x your wardrobe, options whose styles reappear in current expanding your fashion options this fall trends. You can fi nd high-waisted pants, semester.

Anna Weldon A&E Editor

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Fashion

How would you describe your look?

“Cheap.”

On The Street

Hand-me-down shoes complement Williamsʼ Levi pants.

Ryan Williams, 23 Rite Aid employee This PacSun shirt that was on clearance.

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calendar Wednesday, August 22 Neon Trees with The Moon and 21 Pilots Altar Bar, 8 p.m.

Friday, August 24 Meeting of Important People with Pet Clinic, The Great Ants and Texture Ballet Mr. Smalls, 8 p.m. Admission: $10 www.mrsmalls.com

Jane’s Addiction Stage AE, 7:30 p.m. Admission: $42.50-$45 www.stageae.com

Second City for President O’Reilly Theater, showtimes vary Admission: $28-55 www.ppt.org

Saturday, August 25

Sunday, August 26

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival Festival Grounds, West Newton, Pa. Weekends through September 30 Admission: $14.95-$16.95 www.pittsburghrenfest. com

Duran Duran Stage AE, 6:30 p.m. Admission: $49 www.stageae.com

Wednesday, August 29 Train with Mat Kearney and Andy Grammer Stage AE, 7 p.m. Admission: $36.50-$38 www.stageae.com

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KEENEY Recipes Breakfast Yogurt 1 apple 1 banana 1 orange 1 bag of granola A pinch of sugar Nonfat vanilla yogurt Wash the apple, then dice. s, and then approximately 1/4-inch slice Peel the banana. Cut it into cut those in half. , and then cut ately 1/2-inch-wide wedges xim pro ap o int e ng ora e th t Cu el from all of the pieces. those in two. Remove the pe sugar to e in a bowl and add a pinch of ng ora d an na na ba , ple ap e Mix th the top. — your preference), Combine the yogurt with the fruit (or eat it on the side and top it all off with a handful of granola. e inexpensive, day-old, While some prefer the lunchtime option of thos something a bit more for ng looki be t migh 7-Eleven hot dogs, others en salad is one of the substantial to get them through the day. A chick een work or class. betw are fastest, easiest and healthiest meals to prep pre-packaged with ers pepp and s Combine tasty veggies like tomatoe usual. than rum humd less far ’s that d slices of chicken for a sala

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Cut the chicken Spread the lettstucrips into halves, and prepare as inst tomatoes, red peppe mix onto a large plate or into ructed on the bag. vinegar. By the tim er, cheese and chicken. Top with ol a large bowl. Add ramen noodle pack e dinner rolls around, the sweet ive oil and balsamic rooms of desperatets resonates throughout the aparsound of crinkling good after a nine-h e students all over campus. Whi tments and dorm doesn’t?), try a ve our study marathon in the libraryle it might taste little more work, bugetable stir-fry on for size instea (but really, what healthier. And with t it also tastes 10 times better d. Yes, it takes a study sessions w a bit of rice thrown in, it’ll have yo and is significantly ith ease — bonus: u powering through no yellow-stained Ramen bowls.

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TELEVISION ture on the show. Though there have been many changes with the men and w omen at the advertising firm, one thing is constant: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce will never be a dull workplace. “Breaking Bad” It’s been one year in the world of “Breaking Bad” as the AMC show starts its fifth and final season. And the audience is w atching Walter White in horror as he full y assumes the role of Heisenberg — the name he uses as a meth cook. In season one, after disco vering he had lung cancer, Walter started cooking meth in order to establish fi nancial stability for his wife and son, who suffers from cerebral palsy. He teams up with his former high school student, Jesse Pinkman, who onl y played the drug-dealing field a little because of the Mexican cartel that runs the industry near the U.S.Mexico border. In the early episodes, Walter White claimed that he was cooking methamphetamine “for our family” — and audience members found themselves rooting for him. N ow in season five, Walt is the king of the meth business and he has hubris that was brought on by his crafting the murder of the kingpin before him.

Television

Aaron Paul (left) and Bryan Cranston are wrapping up the ﬁ fth and ﬁ nal season of “Breaking Bad.” There doesn’t seem to be an

96 end in sight for their characters as they take over the meth industry. MCT Campus

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com RINGLING AGAINST THE MACHINE

Expand party playlists for optimum raging experience Michael Ringling Assistant News Editor It’s almost syllabus week, and we’re all just trying to party before the semester of deadlines and term papers. And y ou, of course, want to be the guy or girl throwing the party with the music that’ll please both your new acquaintances and old friends. But honestly, how do y ou know what the cute girl with the ey ebrow piercing you met in Intro to Economics listens to ? You don’t, but you did invite her to the so-called “banger” you’re throwing tonight in y our South Oakland apartment. Do you want to be the person who throws on the party mix Pandora pla ylist, a host who subjects party guests to the nadir of American music, also kno wn as the T op 40? Or how about the hipster who thro ws on the obscure music that no one has heard about? Because, y ou know, that’ll really bring people together. No. You want to be the person who has a little bit of music for ev eryone, even the Jager-bombing metal head in the Sla yer Tshirt. But before we get too heavy for you hipsters, let’s take care of the basics. You need a playlist that creates a natural progression for the night, so you don’t want the songs that people drunkenly sing along to playing at 9: 30 p.m. That’s bad timing, and with so man y parties to c hoose from, people aren’t going to stic k around if the music gives off the wrong vibe at the wrong times. For starters, turn off shuffle. You’re better than that. Start your playlist with a pregaming mix. You have at least an hour before the random party-goers start sho wing up and judging you for your musical tastes, so tak e advantage of the time. Of course, the fi rst people who show up are going to be the guy s in their W almartpurchased band T -shirts who are super pumped to go to their fi rst college party. Make them happy with some old party fa vorites from a better generation — lik e some Led Zeppelin, Rush or Boston. E veryone loves Boston. Now the party’s growing, your guests are feeling good and the sorority hopefuls just walked through the door. They’ll have none of your classic rock goodness, so appease their minds with some chronic hits. The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” Tupac’s “California L ove” and Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin but a ‘G ’ Thang” all keep the tempo up without prematurely sending the party into dance mode. And when your guests are past the self conscious stage, mo ve them to the dance floor with songs like Ludacris’ “What’s your Fantasy” or Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris.”

Sample Playlist Pregaming Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God

Get the good times rolling “Level” by The Raconteurs “Tom Sawyer” by Rush “Good Times Bad Times” by Led Zeppelin “Peace of Mind” by Boston

Chronic Hits “Forgot about Dre” by Dr. Dre “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” by Tupac and Snoop Dogg “Juicy” by The Notorious B.I.G. “Twentyfourseven” by Doomtree

Dance jams “Get Low” by East Side Boyz “Starships” by Nicki Minaj “LoveGame” by Lady Gaga “What’s Your Fantasy” by Ludacris

Kill the party “Angel of Death” by Slayer “Mouth for War” by Pantera “Tornado of Souls” by Megadeth “Eyeless” by Slipknot

After a few hours of dancing, J ello shots and overtly sexual jams, y our party-goers are read y to sing. J ust make sure y ou pick songs that ev en the most anti -social 21-year-old knows the words to, like Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” or Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” You can also throw in some of those songs from the a wkward middleschool-dance days, like a catc hy Blink-182 song or some Dookie-era Green Day. But now you’ve reached the tric ky part of playlist creation. Your guests are c lose, comfortable and singing o verplayed ’80s tunes, so how do you elevate the party from here? Do you slow it do wn, giving your guests a chance to couple up and leave? No. This is your party, and you’re showing no signs of slowing down. With the people looking for the laid-back rap hits already departed for their inscenseburning-friend’s house and the dancing girls oﬀ to some frat, you have only the metal heads and late-night drinkers to please. Throw on the Sla yer! The guy single handedly killing your Jager handle has been burning for some W est Coast thrash all night. And what better w ay to keep the party moshing into the darkened streets of South Oakland than “Madhouse” b y thrash gi ant Anthrax or “D evirgination Studies” by death-metal monsters Whitechapel? There is none. Party on people, and keep oﬀ the Pandora.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Nas returns to roots, takes on old persona for new album Andrew Gretchko Staff Writer

Life is Good Nas Def Jam Recordings Grade: ARocks like: ‘90s Nas meets Swizz Beatz As many aging rappers strug gle to sta y relevant, Nasir Jones, more public ly known as N as, has remained success ful throughout his 18-year, 10-studio-album career. The k ey to N as’ continued ad vances in the rap game? R efusing to sell out. Nas’ newest album might inc lude plenty of the usual trumpeting of gangster hardness so common in his songs, but the recent release, Life is Good, also features smoother trac ks more akin to those of his Golden Age past. Yes, it’s true that Nas no longer needs to sell drugs or tote guns to earn money , but that doesn’t mean he can’t reminisce on his youth, thereby providing the Nas faithful with exactl y what they w ant to hear. “How could I not succumb ? / How could I not partake? / Fifteen I got a gun /

sixteen I robbed a train,” he raps in the album’s opening track, “No Introduction.” The song takes the listener back through Nas’ earlier years — which included life in the neighborhood he w as raised in — and talks with rap legend Biggie Smalls. The album’s second trac k, “LocoMotive,” may not have the mournful keyboard or cymbal crashes of its predeces sor, but what it lacks in live-performance feel it mak es up for in sty le. Harkening back to the early ’90s — rap’s Golden Age — Nas enlists the help of producer Large Professor, a fellow Queens native, in order to set things off right. Touted as one of the best hip-hop producers of all-time, Large Pro really delivers in Nas’ newest old-school hit, which calls upon the sounds of the N ew York City subway and a laid -back bassline to move it forw ard. The dark, jazzy sound of the piano is reminiscent of N as’ popular 1994 song “N .Y. State of Mind” and proves that Nasty Nas can still fl ow with the best of them. How does a big-name rapper lik e Nas manage to deli ver the age -old militant flow he did back in ’94? A lack of respect. “They askin’ how he disappear and reappear back on top,” he says during “LocoMotive,” reminding us that detractors

only help N as by giving him motivation. If N as’ beefs with Bill O’R eilly, Jay-Z and Mobb D eep have taught us an ything, it’s that this rap veteran is willing to return to war at a moment’s notice, bringing out the type of sound that has helped him thrive for nearly two decades. The album’s third song, “A Queens Sto ry,” makes good use of boom-bap rimshots and a vibrant string section to complement N as’ storytelling ability, which hasn’t lost a beat. He emulates the track’s jazzy feel throughout the album with songs such as “Stay” and “Cherry W ine,” the latter of which features late British singer Amy Winehouse. The track may detail plenty of illicit behavior, but for a rapper with a past as rough as N as’, it’s no w onder that man y of his story-themed songs cover tales of drugs, sex and violence. F or those looking to avoid the harsh realities of life in

the ghetto, tracks such as “Daughters ” are rated closer to PG-13 than R and show the rapper’s softer side. He might be a platinum -record-selling hip-hop mogul, but unlik e his old crosstown enemy, Jay-Z, he’s not pushing forward with covers of “Forever Young.” Nas’ latest album hark ens back to true rap.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Odd Life’ makes heartwarming claim on family and originality Anna Weldon A&E Editor

“The Odd Life of Timothy Green” Directed by: Peter Hedges Starring: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams Grade: B If a bo y bloomed from the garden after a supernatural thunderstorm, most par ents would feel some concern in viting the leaf-covered child into their homes. Luckily for Timothy, the Greens aren’t most parents. Set in a picturesque to wn that runs almost entirely on its pencil production, “The Odd Life of Timoth y Green” recounts the story of Timoth y (CJ Adams) as Jim ( Joel Edgerton) and Cind y Green ( Jennifer Garner) tell his tale to adop tion services. Without excluding a single detail, the two recount the unlikely situation just as they recall it — fantastic and with little explanation. Jennifer Garner plays Cindy Green — a timid, infertile wife who desperatel y wants a c hild. Not unlike her c haracter in the 2007 film “J uno,” she has a soft -

spoken attitude and a kind heart that keeps viewers rooting for her even when she exhibits neurotic parental beha vior. Her fervent desire to have a baby immediately elicits compassion from the audience. Her husband, Jim, w ants a c hild as much as Cind y does, and when the tw o learn they will not be able to reproduce, they’re devastated. Trying to console his wife during this tough time, he seems at first to do all the wrong things. Eventually, however, the two decide to accept the reality of their situation. But first, they spend one more night dreaming of their perfect biological child, who they kno w will never exist. On separate notebook pages, Jim and Cindy each make a list of attributes they’d always hoped to see in their child. Both give their dream baby a good heart, honesty to a fault and an in viting sense Timothy Green bafﬂ es everyone he meets with his leaf-co vered legs and happ y perof humor. Though they don ’t wish for sona. MCT Campus their child to be an ex ceptional athlete, they do hope that one day he’d score the any hopes of a future that inc ludes a into the sk y rather than falling — one winning goal of a game, lea ving them child decimated, the G reens bury the of many unrealistic moments through screaming with pride from the bleachers notebook pages in a bo x deep in their out the film — an unkno wn visitor runs — a wish that will later have them biting garden. through the house hiding behind the re their tongues. A wild storm plagues the Green house But wishful thinking doesn ’t change that night, and Jim a wakes to the crash Green 97 the Greens’ unfortunate situation. W ith ing boom of thunder. As rain sucks back

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VENUES The venue is comprised of a skate park, two recording studios, a state -of-the-art theatre, an artist ’s hostel, and it ’s in the process of adding “The War Room” — intended to serve as a kind of museum of Pittsburgh’s rock ‘n’ roll history — which looks to add further fun to the wild and

Don’t let the name fool you, though — Mr. Smalls means business when it comes to music. wacky concert venue. Don’t let the name fool you, though — Mr. Smalls means business when it comes to music. It has hosted artists such as Bone ThugsN-Harmony, moe., George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Umphrey’s McGee, Ziggy Marley and countless other greats. If you’re a big music fan, you’ll be visiting

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Mr. Smalls often. Consol Energy Center When the Pittsburgh Penguins’ iconic Civic Arena was torn down, the new home of one of the nation’s biggest hockey towns had some pretty big shoes to fill. Luckily, the Consol Energy Center has picked up right where the old stadium left off, housing some of Pitts burgh’s largerthan-life concerts while managing to juggle the Penguins’ and the Pitts burgh Power arena football team’s schedules on the side. Featuring big-name performances from some of music’s premier players — including Avicii, Carrie Underwood, Rush and Lady Gaga — Consol is the place to be for some of the big gest shows that come to Pittsburgh. Honorable mentions Since a city as large as Pittsburgh must have far more than fi ve concert venues, here’s our list of honorable mentions: the Shadow Lounge (hip-hop), the First Ni agara Pavilion (23,000-plus seats), Diesel Club Lounge (great sound system), Club Cafe (hipster heaven) and Heinz Hall (classical music and plays). Bob your head, mosh, crowd surf, rock out and rave, as Pittsburgh’s many stages play host to some of the biggest and bright- Avicii has performed at the Consol Energy Center twice so far this year. Steve Garfinkel| est artists the music industry has to offer. For The Pitt News

FILM REVIEW

‘Campaign’ pokes fun at reallife political figures

Zach Galiﬁanakis (left) and Will Ferrell star in “The Campaign,” in which they both vie for a North Carolina House seat. MCT Campus

Kate Miltenberger For The Pitt News

“The Campaign” Directed by: Jay Roach Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Grade: B It’s not sophisticated. It ’s not ground breaking. It’s also not that far off the mark. “The Campaign” satirically picks at real-life politicians during an infl uential time in American politics through its witty plot and the comedic interactions between the two main characters. “The Campaign” is about a congressio nal race in North Carolina for a House seat that Cam B rady, played by a w ell-coiffed Will Ferrell, has held for eight y ears, running unopposed ev ery time. Then enters Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), who decides to run at the urgings of his politi cally connected father (Brian Cox) and the evil Motch brothers, a fun-to-watch duo of Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow. Brady is an incumbent more interested in having the position rather than li ving up to his responsibilities, and Hug gins is a morally sound odd-ball that gets duped by the Motch brothers. The duo see him as a puppet for their evil sc heme to set up a Chinese sweatshop in the United States. For fans of F errell and Galifi anakis’s particular brands of comed y, this fi lm won’t disappoint. The jokes are sometimes stupid, Ferrell acts like a buffoon and Galifianakis is a weirdo wearing cardigans and mock turtlenecks throughout the entire film.

But what redeems these blunders is the plot, which zips along nicel y as it fol lows the weeks leading up to the election. There’s just enough room for the funn y and awkward interactions that Ferrell and Galifianakis both thri ve on without an y of the uncomf ortable ad-libbing that can sometimes become tedious in other F errell films. Many things in this film are implausible. These falsehoods don’t matter though, and that’s part of the c harm. “The Campaign” is so over-the-top, so far from touching on all the real issues, that it ’s a pleasant re spite from the actual state of politics today. The only touch of reality comes from fictional national news coverage that calls on well-known pundits like Wolf Blitzer of CNN’s “The Situation R oom,” Chris Mat thews of MSNB C’s “Hardball” and Bill Maher, among others, to warp these outrageous incidents into just more muc k from the campaign trail. In these pundit -centered moments, there’s a touc h of truth when the outra geous gags are do wnplayed to appear as nothing more than run -of-the-mill election-time mud thro wing. Viewers may think during these scenes, “ This would never actually happen.” But that thought eventually becomes, “Could this ever happen?” and adds a comic realization to the political landscape. However, this momentary reflection is immediately wiped away by more insane one -up-manship out of Ferrell and Galifianakis. “The Campaign” is funny. It’s also probably the best -case scenario in politics, where good triumphs evil, and more im portantly, good and evil are clear-cut. “The Campaign” won’t deliver cutting political satire, but it will deliver laughs.

The Pitt News Crossword, 08/22/2012

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CALIBAN by trends as new bookshops do.” But that doesn’t mean that Caliban remains in the dark ages. W ith more than 200,000 books in the bookshop ’s warehouse, located in Wilkinsburg, Pa., the Internet has become the best place to reach a broader market outside of Pittsburgh in an attempt to sell more goods. Scott Silsbe, the bookstore’s warehouse manager, works among the racks of books ﬁve days a week. The warehouse acts as a holding station for the surplus books that come in and will eventually go to the bookshop, as well as a source to document an online inventory. Currently, the warehouse has more than 43,000 books listed online, which helps to expand the book store’s revenue. Still, Schulman notes that the Internet does generate a few negative consequences. The entire concept of purc hasing goods online generally isolates people, k eeping them inside their homes and separated from in-store interaction. “I don’t know if it ’s really great as far as promoting the idea of books, ” Schulman said. And that mentality is what Caliban Book Shop seeks to represent through its used and rare books. Located between the campuses of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, the store is surrounded by academia that helps to fuel its proﬁts.

Caliban Book Shop on Craig Street buys, sells and appraises used and rare books. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

Silsbe received his masters degree from Pitt in 2004, and as a student he found used book stores to be a valuable resource. Though the bookstore doesn’t buy back textbooks from its neighboring uni versi-

ties, it does dra w from the support that both Pitt and CMU generate for the area, or what Schulman terms, “that academic support system that’s necessary for a good used book store.”

“[Used book stores] are a safe place oﬀ of a university campus to not only discover new authors, but to meet peers and other authors,” he said. “Someho w writers get turned on by used book stores.”

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Pittsburgh Dance C enter in B loomfield and Thursdays at Bossa Nova, also located Downtown. According to Martinez, Thursda y at ily,” Neuhaus said. Bossa Nova is probably one of the big gest Salsa is a way to get out and mak e new salsa events of the w eek due to the num friends while learning about a new culture ber of people that attend consistentl y. He and having fun while w orking out. Fortu- teaches a class there with an open floor for nately, it doesn’t take much to get involved dancing afterward. Events like these off er in salsa. dancers different forms of salsa. Sunday night salsa at A bsolute Ball“As an instructor, I think it is important room starts with an ad vanced class fol- to know all styles in case you come across a student who wants to learn all of these different styles that came about. E verything Head to pittnews. needs to be embraced and I don ’t believe that one is better than the other,” Martinez com for a video of said. “It’s all about what you enjoy.” But those who are starting with no pri people talking about or experience shouldn’t be afraid. “Even if they are off a little bit, so what? their experience It’s all about ha ving a smile on y our face and making the person that y ou are danclearning to salsa ing with happy — and enjoying it,” Martinez said. “When you hear that rhythm and dance. the music is playing, it kind of moves you. And once it mo ves one person, it kind of moves the whole crowd.” lowed by beginner and intermediate les On a tight college budget, salsa is finansons. After receiving instructions, dancers cially practical. W hile many other acti viare set free for a dance social to mingle and ties and workout classes cost more than a practice their moves. college student can aff ord, these salsa lesWhile Absolute Ballroom seems to be a sons are typically free. Mexico City has a Savannah Smith from Robinson Township salsa dances with Pete Wesolosky Luv Purohit place to practice precision, there are other $5 cover, but after a fi rst lesson or dance | Visual Editor options for those just w anting to get their social, it will be clear that the workout protoes wet. vided by salsa dancing is quite w orth the they have two left feet or no rh ythm. I’ve tinez said. “It ’s a dance that an yone can Monday salsa nights can be found small price. seen it and heard it all, and before y ou pick up and learn with the right amount of Downtown at Sevic he, Tuesdays at the “Everyone can learn. People can sa y know it they are dancing up a storm,” Mar- time.” FROM PAGE 77

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Coldplay was one of many bands that rocked out in London this summer. Victor Augusto | Flickr

to the stage for one more encore, putting the speakers of the tw o-year-old concert hall to the test. Childish Gambino’s name ma y be the product of an online rap-name generator, but Donald Glover’s concerts are impos sible to recreate. His energ y and cro wd control are top-notch, and fans that come for a taste of his lyrical prowess leave anything but disappointed. The next time Childish comes to Pitts burgh, do yourself a favor and get a ticket. Quinn Keaney Coldplay I saw Coldplay in concert this J une while bopping around L ondon for the summer (tough life, I kno w). While I’m not the biggest Coldplay fan in the world, it’s tough not to get totally wrapped up in the band’s shows, which are less concerts and more experiences. With a 60 ,000-strong stadium audi ence waiting in the rain, C oldplay burst onto the stage with a dazzling visual dis play. The sho w’s production v alue was lavish, to say the least. Fi ve massive circular video screens, an arm y of roc kets and confetti cannons, giant beac h balls painted like the globe and blinking wristbands on ev ery audience member that ﬂashed multi-colored lights in time to the music all pla yed a part in trans forming the entire stadium into a T echnicolor light show. Chris Martin, the band’ s lead singer , threw himself around the stage almost giddily as the confetti cannons rained down pastel cutouts of hearts, butter ﬂies and triangles, further encouraging the drunken Frenchman wearing a Chris Martin mask next to me to dance his heart out. Still, Coldplay managed breezily to get through its professional 100 -minute set, complete with almost tw o dozen songs,

additional special eff ects (an elaborate laser light sho w) and guest appearances (Simon Pegg of Shaun of the D ead played harmonica). The band opened the sho w with the title track of its latest album, M ylo Xyloto, and quickly moved on to more popu lar fan-favorites such as “Y ellow,” “The Scientist” and “ Viva la V ida.” Coldplayphiles throughout the cro wd were more than satisfied when the band v entured into its more obscure song book, including a performance of “Lovers in Japan.” As the band closed out its performance with a large fi reworks display, I couldn ’t help but get caught up in the moment and dance just as exuberantl y as the Chris Martin-masked man next to me. Emma Kilcup Bonnaroo From June 7 to 10 , the R ed Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and The Beac h Boys were hanging out at a farm in Manc hester, Tenn. “Hanging out” may not be a good enough description. Really, they w ere rocking out, along with about 150 other artists and appro ximately 60,000 music fans. While the love of music, camping and w onderful hippie activities brought this large group together, it was all made possible by the 11th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Other music festi vals, such as C oachella, have been tainted b y celebrity fashion, but Bonnaroo has remained dirty and perfectly filled with groups of fl ower children. By the fourth day, everyone had a layer of dust covering their skin, giving them a nice tan made permanent b y the consistent sweat that was inescapable after hours under a tent with hundreds of equally dirty, equally committed fans.

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BISTRO nestled between two shops and caters mainly to the foot traffic on F orbes Avenue. The original Eat’n Park restaurants have a family-oriented atmosphere that speaks of a more traditional restaurant. But with each expansion, the group’s new restaurants have broadened in theme to encompass different trends. All of this is part of the main idea behind Hello Bistro. Broadhurst explained that the ultra-friendly attitude of the staff as well as the amusing way in which the menu is designed — meal descriptions include a Superburger topped with nostalgia — factor into the restaurant’s community appeal. Patrons can order The Everyman Grilled Cheese, with ingredients that make it “A Good Ol’ Sam ’ich,” according to the menu. “With traditional E at’n Park restaurants, there’s always an element of community. We often get people who develop a personal relationship with the servers

“It’s cool to just be able to write stuﬀ on the wall, and it’s not frowned upon or anything.” Timothy Bussert and other employees,” Broadhurst said. “With this more urban approach, we still have ways to preserve that.” The restaurant’s menu features a few familiar items from Eat’n Park as well as a few upgraded versions of classic Eat’n Park burgers, such as the Bistro Burger. The other Pittsburgh-based restaurant that spawned from the Eat’n Park family also strays from the traditional feel of the original restaurant — but The Porch and Hello Bistro are not carbon copies of each other. Also found right off Forbes Avenue, The Porch serves more-expensive food in a less-urban environment. Though it’s not outside of the city, it borders Sc henley Plaza, and the outdoor eating area, featuring a fireplace and plentiful seating, makes it a nice place to relax and enjo y a meal. And there are plenty of c haracteristics that distinguish Hello Bistro from The Porch. Most notable is Hello Bistro’s chalkboard, featuring messages from other diners. “It’s cool to just be able to write stuff on the wall, and it ’s not frowned upon or anything,” Pitt senior Timoth y Bussert said. Hello Bistro’s casual setting mak es

it more college -friendly for bus y students with hectic academic sc hedules. It has a great location for South Oakland residents, and its reasonable prices and simple menu give the restaurant a light atmosphere suitable for a quick but delicious meal. “The food here is reall y good. The burgers are the best on campus for sure,” Pitt junior Jimmy Muller said. For those who have never been to the restaurant, it’s easy to find a knowledgeable food guide in one of the employees. Chances are restaurant-goers will be directed to the larger -than-life salad bar or recommended a burger that seems personally suited to their taste buds. Hello Bistro’s chalkboard turns customers into artists. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

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Pinterest, sans the cupcakes Men hang images of cars, whiskey, sports and cigars to Dudepins, the masculine version of Pinterest Adam Tschorn MCT Campus LOS ANGELES — The 2 -month-old website Dudepins.com (slogan: “Man up. Sign up. Pin up.”) is what y ou might end up with if y ou grabbed Pinterest b y its grosgrain and cal ico corners, shook it free of all the w edding cakes, cute kittens and arty crafts and then restocked it with photos of mustac hes, man caves and Maker’s Mark. The brainchild of tw o 25-year-olds

from Vancouver, Kamil Szybalski and Colin Brown, Dudepins manages to be both a spoton sendup of the oh -so-popular aforementioned P-site and a humorous way for disenfranchised bros to indulge in a virtual version of time-honored traditions like showing oﬀ that LeRoy Neiman painting of Larry Bird or a maroon 1984 Cadillac Seville without being forced to wade through terabytes of homemade glitter, braiding-twisting tec hniques and cupcake-in-an-ice-cream-cone serving suggestions.

The site, which is still in beta, has been live since mid -June, and prospecti ve Dudepinners currently must enter an email ad dress to request membership , according to co-founder Szybalski (who goes by the nom du Internet of “K Dude”). Although he w on’t divulge the exact number of members signed up to date, he oﬀ ers some insight. “We don’t have tens of thousands of users yet, but we do have thousands of users,” he said. “And we’ve got a couple thousand people on our [re quest] list.” And it’s at least popular enough

for the start-up to announce that it recentl y recruited a chief technology officer from San Jose, Sohail Suleman, to help tak e things to the next level. And just how did two cross-border bros hit on the idea? “Honestly — and I’ m not o verexaggerating — we were sitting on C olin’s [a.k.a. C Dude’s] balcony in Vancouver having Scotch and a cigar,” K Dude explained. “W e started talking about Pinterest, and w e figured out that men really can’t use Pinterest. Well, they can, but it’s not built for them. So we decided to throw together something that caters to ward dudes and men to see if it would fly.” Catering to that dude demographic meant a few rules. Posting of male -oriented content (“dude stuff ”) is encouraged, and “dude stuff ” is defi ned at the Dudepins w ebsite as: “something that injects enough testosterone to tickle your sub-cockles.” K Dude is less oblique: “W e’re strictly about cars, cigars, Scotc h, style, man caves, bacon — all the good stuff . And we don’t allow women on our site.” No, dude, K Dude so did not say what you think he just said. He’ s not hanging a “N o Girls Allowed” sign on the door of the virtual tree fort — the site actually has several hundred female members, which is totally A-OK with K Dude. What he means is that, despite what you might expect from a man -centric, photo-driven social media w ebsite, images of naked women and scantil y clad bikini bodies are verboten. “We don’t allow any women or nudity because our users ha ve told us they can ’t look at it at work if there are naked women on the site,” K Dude sa ys. “And men won’t want to look at [the site] at home if their wives think they’re looking [at those kinds of sites].” But that’s not 100 percent accurate, since a quic k check of the site turned up some tasteful “pinned up” pictures of a tanktopped Marisa T omei, a bikini -bottomed Hope Solo and Anne Hath away clad in a curve-hugging Catwoman costume. (They’ve all somehow managed to helpfull y congregate over in a category called “Hot Chic ks,” presumably to ensure no dude runs afoul of his boss or lady friend.) In addition to the pinboard montages, there’s a Dudepins blog and a Dudepins fo rum, as well as a Dudepins Facebook page. If you sniff and turn up y our nose at the idea, dismissing it as some kind of inevitable “bro-tastasis” of the Internet (the w ay Evite begat Manvite), feel free to w ade among the eScrapbookers hoarding their Insta grammed shots of shrimp scampi, calla lilies and earring trees. But K Dude and the dude army have had enough. And they ’re not going anywhere but up. “Our next step is to increase the traffi c to the site and gro w as large as w e can. This is not a one -off, and we’re not looking for a quick exit. We’re looking to mak e this a big website.” Got that, dude?

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Are audiences playing a joke on Hollywood’s comedy stars? Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman MCT Campus LOS ANGELES — As Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis open their new movie, “The Campaign,” this weekend, they’re trying to woo a film-going audience that has been v oting — with its feet — against comedies this season. Nearly all of their fellow big-name comedians have struggled at the box office recently. Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller bombed with “The Watch” two weeks ago. Adam Sandler, as close to a golden boy this comedic century has seen, flopped in June with the gross-out fatherson pic “That’s My Boy,” his second consecutive disappointment after last year’s “Jack and Jill.” Jason Segel, who has built a solid fan base with bromantic comedies like “I Love You, Man,” couldn’t push “The Five-Year Engagement” past the $30 million mark this spring. Instead, this year’s biggest comedy hit has been the unlikely “Ted,” a movie whose breakout star is a potty-mouthed virtual teddy bear. “Ted” has made $205 million at the domes tic box office, more than double the tak e of “That’s My Boy,” “Engagement” and “Watch” combined. The results have some in Hollywood wondering whether there may be a fundamental shift taking place, away from star-driven comedies. American movie-goers have long had a love affair with comedic actors, from the Marx Brothers and Bob Hope to “Saturda y Night Live” alumni such as Eddie Murphy and Sandler, flocking to theaters again and again to watch these comedians do their shtick, despite and sometimes even because it is familiar. But in an era when seemingly anyone can be funny on YouTube, and when there’s an abundance of A-list comedians on TV and the Web, the idea of pa ying money to watch a particular big-screen comedian one more time may be on the wane. “You can see a guy do impressions on Comedy Central or the Internet all day long now,” said Sony Pictures Classics’s Tom Bernard, the executive behind Woody Allen’s intelligentsiacomedy hit “Midnight in Paris.” “I think ‘Midnight’ and ‘Ted’ show people want something smart and different when they go to a mo vie theater.” Vincent Bruzzese, president of the motionpicture group at Ipsos Media, an industry research firm, said concept and no velty now seem to drive the genre. And with technology now allowing people to share clips and funny scenes, movie-goers who once relied on marquee names to pic k what to see are more lik ely to take a chance on comedies with unkno wns, he said, cit ing films such as “Bridesmaids” and the fi rst “Hangover.” “I think more people w ere talking about Zach Galifianakis saying the word ‘re-tard’ in ‘The Hangover’ than anything else in a comedy in the last fi ve years,” he added. “And most people didn’t even know who Zach Galifianakis was when that movie came out.”

Studios have responded by putting more effort into developing concept-driven comedies, such as this spring ’s low-budget “Project X” (which featured no recognizable actors and cost Warner Bros. $12 million, but brought in $100 million worldwide) or a “ Ted”-like decision this week by Sony Pictures Animation to develop a movie based on the wisecracking 1980s alien furball “Alf.” Scott Stuber, who has produced numerous comedies for Universal — including “Ted,” Vaughn’s “The Break-Up” and “Couples Retreat,” and Owen Wilson’s “You, Me and Dupree” — believes the landscape is shifting.

“Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller and A dam Sandler are funny, charismatic actors and will continue to be,” he said. “But the audience wants new and original things. We’re all challenged by that.” Neither of the main human stars in “Ted” — Mark Wahlberg and Mila K unis — are known for comedy; they essentially played the straight men in the fi lm. The “new and original” came in the form of a stuff ed toy that simulates sex acts and acts purely on id. If the film did have a brand name, it wasn’t an actor but its writer-director, Seth MacFarlane, creator of the animated TV show “Family Guy.”

Other successful comedies in the last few years have fallen into a similar category as “Ted.” In 2011, the Kristen W iig- and Judd Apatow-guided “Bridesmaids” oﬀered the appeal of seeing women who were not movie stars joking grossly then bonding sweetly, a fresh twist on Apatow’s male-centric formula. Meanwhile, the Jason Bateman-Charlie Day-Jason Sudeikis workplace comedy “Horrible Bosses,” another big comed y hit last summer, also eschewed conventional ﬁlmcomedy stars in favor of an intoxicating (if

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TELEVISION Now, Walt’s desire to keep the meth business going is purely ego-driven with the intent to portray himself as the one with the most power. It’s hard to decipher when he’s being genuine. His wife made an emotional transition from shock at the discovery of his secret job to helping him launder his earnings through a car wash to horror at her husband who she discovers has killed people and sho ws no remorse. And Walter’s brother-in-law, who is up oﬀ his feet after a shootout betw een two Mexican cousins entwined in the cartel, continues to fervently pursue those in the

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com web of the meth business. Season five has been split into two parts, and at this point, there doesn’t seem to be a satisfying end in sight for how Walter White can return to the role of admirable father and husband. “The Newsroom” Beginning its fi rst season this summer, HBO’s “The Newsroom” works to create an idealized show for viewers of the behind-thescenes action at Atlantis Cable News (ACN), a fictional news channel set in New York City. The show, created by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”), began with a tense question and-answer session, in which popular news

Will McAvoy (left) and MacKenzie McHale run “The Newsroom.” MCT Campus

anchor Will McAvoy yells at a college student for what he deems to be Americans’ ineptness. The footage went viral, putting this news anchor in a delicate position in the newsroom. When he returns to work, he learns that the newsroom he knew has been turned upside down. MacKenzie McHale, the show’s new executive producer — who is also McAvoy’s ex-girlfriend — came to the station with a small group of writers to help recreate the news program. As ACN reports real-life news stories from the end of 2010 to the beginning of 2011, “The Newsroom” depicts news from the recent past that viewers will recognize and understand. It demonstrates the politics of a newsroom, how the staﬀ works together to come up with story ideas and the personal struggles of each character. But more importantl y, it serves as a blueprint of ho w broadcast journalism should be delivered to the viewers — with ratings put to the side. Lost reporters, love triangles and even death threats all plague the new sroom, but that doesn’t keep the reporters from doing their job. Despite all the hassle that comes with an oﬃ ce environment — and in this

Peter Dinklage plays Tyrion Lannister in “Game of Thrones.” MCT Campus

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not completely novel) concept: offing one’s cruel supervisor. This year, the March release “21 Jump Street,” which took in nearly $140 million at the box office, drew its originality from the casting itself. At first glance, the movie didn’t seem to offer much of a new concept — it’s a buddy cop comedy based on a television series. But the filmmakers made an unexpected choice in casting Channing Tatum, a hunky actor who was best known for cheesy romance flicks and action films, opposite Jonah Hill. “Channing would always say that he wasn’t the ‘seventh bite of steak’ — meaning that by the time you get to the seventh bite of steak, it’s not as fantastic as your first bite of steak,” “21 Jump Street” co-director Chris Miller said, referring to comedic actors who’ve been plying their trade for a long time. “He was fresh to comedy.” While many dramas and action films can reap 60 percent or 70 percent of their overall revenue from overseas, American comedies frequently do not travel as well, adding to the pressure on studios to contain costs and reexamine big paydays for stars. The budget for the star-laden “The Watch” was estimated at nearly $70 million. “The Hangover,” in contrast, whose actors were relative unknowns before it became a colossal hit, cost only about $35 million. (A few comedians do have international followings; Sacha Baron Cohen, for instance, often does well abroad; his “The Dictator” pulled in only $59 million in the U.S., but $108 million overseas.) The fading of many big comedy stars can be seen as part of a larger trend away from actor vehicles across genres — consider how the “Twilight,” “Harry Potter” and “Hunger Games” franchises made many of their actors into stars, instead of the other way around. Still, studios aren’t giving up on stars entirely, and “The Campaign” is a case in point. Though Ferrell has had his box office ups and downs, he’s had four live-action comedies top $100 million domestically since 2006, and Warner Bros. is hoping that he’s still someone who can draw fans to the multiplex. The studio spent about $60 million on the political farce. It has generated fairly positive reviews and is expected to take in $30 million during its first three days in theaters. Fox is currently shooting a new project with Vaughn and Wilson called “The Internship” that seeks to rekindle their 7-year-old “Wedding Crashers” magic, while Paramount recently signed on for a new Baron Cohen spoof. Some in Hollywood believe that what’s happening now in comedy is not a fundamental shift but a generational one. If the likes of Sandler and Stiller are faltering, they say, younger talent will ultimately step in to take their place. But they’ll have to be careful that these younger stars aren’t the same act in different packaging. “Audiences want something that feels new,” said Miller. “If it feels like a tired re-tread, they’re not going to shell out the $35 dollars or whatever it costs to see a movie.”

frigerator, under the covers and into the nursery that the Greens thought would never be filled. When the less-than-fearful couple searches for their intruder, they find a boy named Timothy, covered in dirt and sprouting leaves from his legs. He claims he’s “from the garden.” The entirety of the film maintains a strange tone that borders the fine line between quirky and terrifying. For some reason, none of the movie’s characters question Timothy’s presence in the Greens’ life, which — even aside from the unbreakable leaves stemming from

his legs — is entirely nonsensical. He appears quickly, immediately affecting the lives of everyone around him, but his arrival provokes no questions from the otherwise overinvolved townspeople. But such inconsistencies don’t mean “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” is a total loss. Though the film is based on an entirely unrealistic plot that tampers with ideas of the paranormal, it strikes a compassionate chord with the audience. Timothy is often the object of ridicule from his peers, getting made fun of for his lack of athleticism or goofy persona. But his constant positivity makes him a likeable character who eventually wins over some of his bullies.

Even Jim and Cindy, through all of their obnoxious parenting, come across as likeable characters. Seeking to provide the best childhood for their garden child, they work hard to make him friends, keep him happy and love him unconditionally. Their intense behavior stems solely from the love they have for Timothy, absolving them of many of their faults and mistakes. Searching to teach a valuable lesson about acceptance and love, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” incites a good feeling in its viewers. But with its many strange plot twists and wholly improbable premise, it still plants a few questions for audience members.

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POP CULTURE This year’s line-up attracted fans of Ludacris, Skrillex and Phish. People traveled from places as far away as France and China to see Bon I ver croon and Ra diohead show off. With such a v ariety of concerts to fit in the time span of four da ys, the trivial Bonnaroo dilemmas become legitimate. This year, fans had to c hoose between seeing The Shins, Y oung the Giant, F un. or The Ci vil Wars, who all performed during the same time slot. Fans had to consider the distance be tween the stages and the obstac le course

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com that the massi ve crowds created while choosing their shows and planning to fit more than one into a single time slot. Though I had to mak e some hard de cisions because of the o verlapping concert times, I had to remember that it was rare to ha ve this man y solid artists at one event. And what I remember most about Bonnaroo are the moments of mu sic magic: Dispatch following its concert with an announcement that its members are getting bac k together, stumbling upon a surprise performance b y Feist and running through the A vett Brothers crowd to hear ev ery banjo strum of the last song. Because that ’s what it ’s all about: the music.

Dawes, an American rock band from Los Angeles, performed at this y ear’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Morgan G. Harris | Bonnaroo

Jonathan Shakesprere Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago’s Union Park was transformed into a w alking Urban Outfitters catalog this summer as emerging indie, electronic and hip-hop artists attracted thousands to the online blog ’s eighth annual Pitc hfork Music Festival. Running the gamut from A$AP Rocky’s “Peso” to V ampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma,” the music, art and film festival preserved a balance betw een multiple genres and popular artists, all while maintaining relati vely low ticket costs. Friday served as a sho wcase of rising underground stars, combining the smooth soundscapes of F eist and Tim Hec ker, willful crooning of W illis Earl Beal and the raucous, anthemic off erings of BIG K.R.I.T. as a fi tting opening to the muc hanticipated festival. Performances ranging in sty le from li ve instrumentation to laptop-powered raves brought out music lovers and critics alik e as self expression and entertainment morphed into one ap pealing media product. Rain and humidity dominated the weekend, forcing concert -goers to seek cover during the sets of Sleigh Bells and Grimes, among others. N evertheless, the damp conditions on Saturda y — the only sold-out day — could not hinder the standout performances b y Wild Flag and Danny Brown. Hot Chip ’s synth-driven dance-pop left crowds up and on their feet at the end of the da y, clamoring for Sunday’s inclusion of more alternati ve and pop offerings. The final day played host to Araab Muzik, Beach House, V ampire Weekend and Kendrick Lamar — along with Lad y Gaga. Rock defined Sunday: Ty Segall Band, Milk Music and The Men restored their audiences’ garage and roc k ’n’ roll expectations with definitive performances that contrasted decidedly with the previ ous day’s sensual experimentation. A fitting conclusion, though, to one of the nation ’s most “ hipster” music of ferings was Vampire Weekend, returning from a hiatus to perform new material, plus a generous helping of old hits inc lud-

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ABROAD homeless population, more empty buildings than we noticed in Thessaloniki and the occasional riot. The rest of the country, however, does not. Most of the Greeks are too busy fraternizing at cafes and taverns into the wee hours of the morning to riot. Their lack of response to the pivotal elections that took place shortly after my arrival exemplified many aspects of their culture quite nicely. For example, if a foreigner set foot in one of America’s largest cities on one of the most significant election da ys in recent history, it wouldn’t take the foreigner long to recognize that it was no ordinary Tuesday. This was not the case in Greece. Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece, but if someone arrived there on election day, oblivious to the significance of the day, they certainly wouldn’t figure it out. The only abnormal behavior I saw was one man dri ving down my street by himself, holding a bullhorn up through his open sun roof. My Greek language arsenal did not extend far enough to catch the exact message playing on repeat from the bullhorn, but it sounded like some sort of repetitive chant supporting one of the political parties. The “protester” did not linger anywhere long enough to disturb an yone. In fact, I found the man who walked down my street playing an out-of-tune accordion at 7 a.m. every other morning to be far more irritating — and he definitely had no relation to the economic crisis. He wasn’t much of a bother anyway — he serv ed as an alarm clock on school days. In the days leading up to the election, we speculated a bit over potential outcomes and how they might affect the country. My RA, after spending most of his summers and the past year in Thessaloniki, emerged as the voice of reason. He confidently assured us that either Greece would remain a part of the European Union and nothing would change, or Greece would leave the European Union indefinitely and nothing would change. Here’s what happened: Greece remained a part of the European Union, and nothing changed. Contrary to popular belief , not every Greek citizen is at fault for the country ’s pending economic crisis. The mistakes of certain people have undoubtedly created some very large, very serious problems, but those who aren’t to blame simply want to go on with their lives. The Greeks are extremely laid-back but, generally speaking, they are also firmly committed to carrying out their responsibilities. The people do their jobs and live their lives the same w ay as they always have. Many of the stereotypes about Greeks are entirely accurate: they are loud, stubborn and overwhelmingly ethnocentric. They have a rich history and they ’re not

afraid to talk about it. But they ’re also friendly, affectionate and extremely hospitable. My mom’s side of the famil y is 100 percent Greek, so these concepts w ere never foreign to me. But they do not truly manifest in the U.S. the same way they do in Greece. There, you can sit at a restaurant all day if you choose. Only want water? Fine. Want to stay and hang for seven hours after finishing that water? Not a problem. No one will ask you to leave. And you probably won’t leave. This city truly does not sleep , unless it ’s time for afternoon siesta. Leaving to go out to a cafe, bar or c lub between the hours of 1 and 3 a.m. is commonplace. No one gets muc h sleep at night. In -

stead, they catch up during the siesta quiet hours from 3 to 5 p .m. every day. During siesta, all stores close and a good portion of the population naps. Those who aren’t napping are sitting at cafes with friends, philosophizing and sipping frappes at their leisure. Drinks — whether caffeinated, alcoholic or neither — are always leisurely sipped. No slurping, no chugging. Although they do tend to watch in fascination when they spot Americans being Americans out at bars. I only barely alluded to the nature of my previous study abroad program, on which I was chasing Gypsies all across central and eastern Europe. Alas, a detailed account of my past two months would be at least the

99 length of a novella, if not a novel. Given the average lifespan of a human being, two months seems like an inconsequential length of time, and, in the U.S., it often is. Why? Because we are Americans. America is familiar. Everyone gets jaded at some point or another. But no amount of time spent on foreign turf is inconsequential. Every experience is life-changing, whether immediatel y noticeable or not. Some experiences are valuable solely because they make the traveler appreciate once-overlooked aspects of home. I will not regret any minute of my time spent in Europe — or so I hope. And for those considering studying abroad, I have two words for you: do it.

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POP CULTURE ing “Mansard Roof” and “A-Punk.” Fulﬁlling more than enough of the h ype surrounding its highl y regarded brand, Pitchfork Music F estival will attract more artists and larger crowds come next July. Rebecca Burns Skating Saturdays have consisted of earl y-morning blading sessions for my friend Shell and I this summer. Being from the ﬂ at plains of Colorado, I am still getting accustomed to

“The Dark Knight Rises” concludes the franchise’s trilogy, featuring Batman, Bane and Pittsburgh. MCT Campus

the rolling hills and manifold potholes in Pittsburgh. Shell skates around like a figure from the roller-derby movie “Whip It,” while I scream while going do wn 10-percent-grade hills. But this summer, it has become m y goal to master the smooth hills of the N orth Shore, where we have kept our morning skate ritual. Skating on the trail surrounding the North Shore in the mornings reminds me of how much I love Pittsburgh. The cityscape is spectacular, with smooth w ater rushing beneath the bridges and the building windo ws sparkling the sun’s reflection. There are runners, walkers, bikers and people lining up for kayaking in the rivers. It is always full of activity. Now that summer is coming to an end, the Rollerblades will soon fi nd their designated spot in the dusty c loset of my laundry room — my goal of conquering those hills came slower than I hoped. I still let out a little scream and occasion ally veer off into the soft grass to slow myself down, but I am getting c loser. Clad in wrist guards, a helmet and kneepads — all nec essary — I am still trying, and the best part is that I am enjo ying the beautiful summer mornings Pittsburgh offers. Anna Weldon “The Dark Knight Rises” When the fi nal installment of Christo pher Nolan’s Batman trilog y came to a dra matic end this July, Pittsburghers didn’t just watch their fa vorite actors duk e it out on screen: They watched Heinz Field fall apart under the football players’ feet, Mellon Institute turn into a battleground and the villain Bane take over their beloved city. But with ev ery computer-generated hit the city took for the sak e of movie magic in Nolan’s masterpiece, residents fell even more in love with the rivers, bridges and buildings. As a local, seeing “ The Dark Knight Rises ” on the big screen developed into something more than just attending a premiere. Pitts burghers aren’t accustomed to seeing the familiar sights blown up in front of their faces. Pittsburgh is not an over-filmed city, so its 15 minutes — or two hours and 45 minutes — of fame sent audiences into a fi t of applause at the sight of every familiar set. Opening night brought the c haracters off the big screen and into the theater with many movie-goers dressed in Batman, Cat woman or Bane costumes. There w ere even a few villains resurrected from past install ments, including the J oker and Tw o-Face. The disguises created an energized, c hildlike atmosphere that other view ers soaked in while anticipating the film. But the excitement for the film resonated throughout the theater ev en without the accompaniment of the c haracters. Locals seemed especially excited to see “ The Dark Knight Rises,” and ev en after the length y film ended, audience members still had the energy and enthusiasm that they had at the beginning of the film. Nolan’s final heartbeat to the Batman trilogy left an impression on the w orld, but for Pittsburgh, this film was personal.

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TELEVISION case, a highly tense environment — McAvoy, McHale and their team of experienced journalists work ruthlessly to report the facts. “Game of Thrones” After wrapping up its second season, “Game of Thrones ” continues to reel in viewers with its intricate plot and compel ling storyline. Set in the fi ctional land of Westeros, the television series picked up where it left off its first season, with the Seven Kingdoms at war. Spanning a period of several months, the season shows the delicately complex inner workings of Westeros and depicts exactl y how intertwined each character’s storyline is. Robb Stark, the King of the North, fought to gain freedom for his people and those of the Riverlands, while Joffrey Baratheon continues to hold the Iron Throne. There, he has the support of House Lannister. But Stannis Baratheon, who has also made a claim to the Iron Throne, has sought advice from Melisandre, the priestess from the east, and Ser Davos Seaworth. She believes Stannis is meant for a greater future, while Seaworth feels uneasy about the shifting powers in Stannis’ inner-circle. Daenerys Targaryen hatched the only three dragons in the world, and though they are currently vulnerable, they will dev elop into horrific creatures capable of demolishing cities at her command. As another character seeking to claim the Iron Throne, she will make her way to Westeros to obtain what she believes is her rightful place, collecting allies along the way. Each character’s story will continue to evolve, and with tensions high in Westeros, the third season of “Game of Thrones ” will prove just as exciting as its predecessors. “Political Animals” “Political Animals,” USA Network’s new miniseries, began its first season this summer during a time when Americans are especially interested in politics — just months before the 2012 presidential election. Set in Washington, D.C., the show’s plot revolves around Elaine Barrish, who currently serves as the Secretary of State under President Paul Garcetti. Barrish — who recently divorced former president and infamous womanizer Bud Hammond — w orks to establish her own politics in a sea of deceit, scandal and intense government action that she tactfully controls as a w oman in such a high position. The miniseries began with an interview between Barrish and journalist Susan Berg, a woman just as equally driven as the Secretary of State, but by a different agenda. Sprinkled with a set of flashbacks to Barrish’s marriage and previous campaign for the presidency , the show gives viewers a more inclusive look at the life of a fictional politician. Determined to prove her role as a leader of the U.S., Barrish decides to run for president

again. The election is still two years away in the miniseries, but as a vulture in the political realm, Barrish decides to begin her campaign immediately, though under the radar. Her son Douglas leads the campaign, first attempting to destroy it before it even begins, but then conceding to it and accepting that his mother would make a good president. It’s the many similarities to real-life American politics that make this show compelling. Viewers can easily draw parallels between the fictional characters and politicians who have passed through the White House and their conflicts with the media. Though “Political Animals” isn’t near its finale yet, a strong plot fi lled with relatable characters and dramatic quality is alread y making the miniseries a thrilling experience.

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Taglianetti continues playing Chryst brings familiar important role on and off the field offensive style to Pitt football program Dustin Gabler Senior Staff Writer After undergoing a drastic change a year ago with the implementation of Coach Todd Graham’s self-titled “high-octane” spread attack, the Pitt football team has returned to an offensive style that the team finds more comfortable: power, pro-style football. Following a disappointing 6-6 record last season when much of the blame centered on Graham’s offense, the Paul Chryst-led Panthers are returning to what worked so well under former

coach Dave Wannstedt. Wannstedt, who spent numerous years in the NFL as a head coach for both the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins, brought a professional style to his alma mater when he took over at Pitt in 2005. His offensive strategy, like Chryst’s will be, was built around a solid running game, and Pitt produced three NFL running backs during Wannstedt’s time at Pitt: LaRod Stephens-Howling, LeSean McCoy and Dion Lewis. Now Chryst, who was named

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Andrew Taglianetti travelled to Haiti during the summer to do volunteer work along with other Pitt student-athletes. Courtesy Pitt Athletics

RJ Sepich Sports Editor He’s done a little bit of everything in his Pitt football career — block punts, make crucial tackles and recover game-changing fumbles. When he’s not making impact plays for the Panthers, he might as well fill the water bottles, do the team’s laundry and walk the coach’s dog. “I guess you could call me a ‘jack of all trades, master of none,’” safety Andrew Taglianetti said with a laugh. With 77 tackles, six blocked punts and four fumble recoveries in his Pitt career, the redshirt senior has shown he has a knack for altering games with his playmaking abilities on defense and special teams. “I try to anticipate things and have a feel for the game, and sometimes the ball comes my way,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate the past couple years to make some plays, but I’d say there’s a little bit of luck, too.”

Despite the coaching carousel that has plagued Pitt football in recent years, Taglianetti’s talent and outgoing personality have made him one of the more recognizable faces of the program since he first put on his blue and gold No. 41 jersey in 2008. So it was no surprise that “Tags” — as many Pitt players, coaches and fans often refer to him — was chosen for the annual Pitt football season tickets advertisement, along with running back Ray Graham, defensive tackle Aaron Donald and fellow safety Jarred Holley. “It’s something I take pride in,” Taglianetti says in the commercial about playing for Pitt. “I love this University and, most of all, I love this city.” The Central Catholic High School graduate, who helped the school win a Pennsylvania AAAA state football championship in 2007, said he was honored to be selected, and also joked that the commercial has helped him with the ladies. “It makes me feel important,”

he said with his trademark sarcasm. “Plus, this gives the girls a reason to like me now.” But what a lot of Pitt fans might not know is that Taglianetti, who is a two-time Big East All-Academic football team selection and a 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nominee, arguably makes more impact in his community than he does on the football field. As the son of former Pittsburgh Penguin Peter Taglianetti, Andrew gives back to the area he grew up in by volunteering with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and regularly visiting the Mel Blount Youth Home, which helps young males who were victims of child abuse and neglect. This past May, his community service reached well beyond his hometown when Taglianetti, redshirt sophomore fullback Mark Giubilato and redshirt senior tight end Hubie Graham traveled to an orphanage in Haiti along with more than a dozen other Pitt student-athletes.

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New Pitt head football coach Paul Chryst will restore an aggressive rushing attack to the team’s offense this year. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

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What you missed in Pitt sports during the summer months Pete Blais Staff Writer At the end of April, most students are fortunate enough to tra vel home and en joy their length y summer break. But that doesn’t mean Pitt sports stop when the spring semester ends. Some Pitt athletes are deservedly given a break from their grueling schedules during the summer, but sports are never out of the news altogether. In case y ou were too bus y sleeping or sunbathing these last few months, here’ s what you missed in the world of Pitt sports: May 6 — Big East O utdoor Track and Field Championships Not long after summer began, the Pitt men’s and w omen’s track and fi eld teams traveled to South F lorida for the Big E ast Outdoor Championships, where they fi nished third and sixth, respectively. At the conc lusion of the three -day competition, 14 Pitt runners recei ved AllBig East Honors, and sev eral of them also competed at both regional and national levels. Seniors Jermaine Lowery and Cambrya Jones were among the seven Panthers that advanced to the NC AA Outdoor Champi onships in early June, although none were able to ad vance past the fi rst round of heats. The Pitt track and fi eld team returns to

action in earl y December with the B lueGold meet, as it looks to build on last sea son’s success. May 25 — Men ’s hoops trans fer Trey Zeigler declared eligible for upcoming season When the NC AA ruled that T rey Zeigler, an incoming men ’s basketball transfer from C entral Michigan, would be eli gible to play for the Panthers this season, the news was so signifi cant that Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon announced it on his Twitter. “Just heard from NC AA that T rey Zeigler will be eligible to play this year,” Dixon said, tweeting for the fi rst time in almost three years. Zeigler, a 6- foot-5 shooting guard, scored more than 1, 000 points at C entral Michigan, averaging 16.0 points, 6.1 re bounds and 2.3 assists per game in his two years at the school. He will begin pla ying next season for the Panthers as a junior and will ha ve two years of eligibility remaining. May 28 — P anthers win fi rst Ultimate title After several close calls in recent years, the Pitt men’s Ultimate frisbee team finally won the U SA Ultimate Di vision I C ollege

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Dorm life not easy for larger Pitt student-athletes Brian Batko Staff Writer When Malcolm Gilbert ’s roommate abruptly left the Pitt men ’s basketball team midway through the season last year, the Panthers lost an integral piece of their roster. But while Khem Birc h’s sudden departure left his teammates hanging, it did the exact opposite for Gilbert — at least in a literal sense. That’s because when Pitt student -athletes move into the dormitories on cam pus — Litc hfield Towers in the summer and Sutherland Hall during the fall and spring — they’re given the same furniture and amenities as normal students, whic h can be a minor issue for a 7 -foot sophomore like Gilbert. “I think they did come in and lengthen [the bed] a few inches to give me a ‘7-foot bed,’ but my toes still came off just a little bit,” Gilbert said. “Before, m y Achilles would hang off and sit on the edge of the bed, and the w ood was not v ery soft at all.” So when Birc h transferred, Gilbert took both beds and pushed them togeth er, forming a mak eshift queen-sized bed that he could sleep on diagonally. While the dual mattresses w ere nice,

the soft-spoken Gilbert missed out on the Ryan Schlieper, a 6-foot-5, 310 pound roommate experience during his second redshirt junior off ensive lineman for Pitt, semester — a big reason why he’s already said he and his fellow linemen can sympadecided he’ll be living not just on campus thize with what Gilbert had to deal with. again this year, but with his new freshman “It’s rough for the off ensive line. Our teammates for a second season in Suther- whole body takes up the entire bed, so land. when you roll over you almost roll off the Like the bed,” Schlieper young basketsaid. “But it ’s ball players, part of the whole football playexperience of ers also li ve training camp. in Sutherland Everyone is dealtheir freshman ing with the same year. The up thing, so you just perclassmen suck it up.” also spend The diminua significant tive Andrew T aamount of time glianetti, a 5-footin the residence 11, 185-pound hall because redshirt senior all Pitt foot ball safety, has no players move problem fitting into Sutherland into his bed at Andrew Taglianetti together when Sutherland, but summer trainhe also explained ing camp begins in early August. that living in the dorms doesn ’t make the The Pitt foot ball team has been using training camp experience any easier. Sutherland to house players during train“Training camp is nev er, never fun. It ing camp since 2000 , when the program always stinks,” Taglianetti said. “Luckily, moved camp from Pitt -Johnstown to its I’m little, so I don ’t have it too bad. But current home on the South Side. the beds are still uncomfortable to lay on.

“Training camp is never, never fun. It always stinks. Luckily, I’m little, so I don’t have it too bad. But the beds are still uncomfortable to lay on.”

You’re still tossing and turning a lot, and after a practice y ou’re so sore, y ou just want something comfortable.” While it’s not uncommon for foot ball players to li ve in Bouquet Gardens as sophomores, most bask etball players choose to move to South Oakland, Shadyside and other off-campus neighborhoods after their first year. “It’s a personal preference thing,” Gilbert said. “Some people lik e their space and some people like to be around people and be social.” Knowing that his father doesn ’t want him to live in off-campus housing until his senior year didn’t hurt Gilbert ’s decision either. And since the U niversity pays for the athletes’ room and board as part of their scholarships, Gilbert just sees living in the dorms as one less aspect of college life to worry about. But as one of the more outgoing mem bers of the foot ball team, it ’s no surprise that Taglianetti has tak en advantage of his upperclassman status b y moving off campus. “You don’t get any relief at Sutherland or Towers, so hopefully the freshmen that have to live there [all year] bring an extra pad or something, because those beds aren’t very comfortable,” he said. “ That’s why I live in Shadyside.”

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FEATURE

Former Panthers inducted in Pro Football Hall of Fame Curtis Martin, Chris Doleman speak at emotional ceremony Sean Corrado Staff Writer

One of the greatest running backs in NFL and Pitt foot ball history began his Pro Football Hall of F ame induction speech with a shocking admission. “I was never a fan of football,” said Curtis Martin, who played with the Panthers from 1991 to 1994. “I can probably count on one hand how many football games I have watched over the years.” Without a true passion for foot ball, Martin understood his speec h would be something much different than what an audience expects at the annual Hall of Fame induction. As the last of the six inductees to speak on A ug. 4 in Canton, Ohio, Martin left the crowd of more than 12,000 in tears. Former Pitt running back Curtis Martin (left) un veils his bust with former coach Bill “I was someone who w as somewhat Parcells at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. MCT Campus forced to play football,” Martin recalled as he began to open up about the obstacles away from crime and violence. College recruiters began taking notice he faced as a child. After thinking baseball w ould be too of Martin’s rushing performances at Taylor Growing up in a rough neighborhood hot to play all summer and realizing he Allderdice High School. Pitt ended up bein Pittsburgh without a real father figure, would never grow tall enough to be suc - ing the right place for Martin because of Martin described his c lose relationship cessful in basketball, Martin picked up its close proximity to his home. with his mother, Rochella Dixon, who the game of foot ball and ran with it — Despite an injury-plagued four years forced her son to play sports to keep him literally. at Pitt, Martin still finished with 2 ,643

rushing yards and 15 touc hdowns in his collegiate career. Then, just before the 1995 NFL Draft, Martin recei ved a call from then-New England Patriots coac h Bill Parcells asking if he w as interested in playing in the AFC East. Martin replied with a stern “ yes, sir,” yet almost went back on his decision before conferring with his old pastor. “I don’t even know that I liked football enough to try to make a career out of it,” Martin said, “ but my pastor at the time was a guy b y the name of L eRoy Joseph. He [said to me ]: ‘Maybe football is just something that God’s given you to do those wonderful things you said you wanted to do for other people.’” That became Martin’s connection to football, and, 14,101 yards later, Martin rushed himself out of a life in a difficult neighborhood and onto the list of the NFL’s all-time rushing leaders. Parcells, who coached Martin with both the Patriots and the New York Jets, loved Martin for his career total of 100 touc hdowns and his durability — Martin only missed one game in his first seven seasons

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Pittsburgh’s pro sports see action during summer months Pirates contending for a playoff place for first time in 20 years captivates city

Rodriguez, Houston’s franchise leader in strikeouts among left-handers, provides depth to a pitching rotation whose back The Pirates chased a pennant. The Steel- end had sho wn signs of w earing, and ers stayed the course. The Penguins shook he will likely become the Bucco ’s third it up. The Power disappointed. starter. For Pitt students who were not in PittsPirates fans should look forward to a burgh this summer — or were and didn’t potential playoff series in whic h James pay attention — that basicall y explains McDonald, A.J. Burnett and R odriguez what recently occurred in the Pittsburgh can go toe-to-toe with the rotations of sports realm. It ’s been an ex citing few postseason opponents — Cincinnati, months for the fanatical sports city that is Washington or Los Angeles — and come Pittsburgh, and with the Pirates currently out on top. making the most headlines, it’s only fair The arrival of rookie outfielder Star to start this summer review with them. ling Marte has boosted the Pirate’s offense this season. Marte became the 28th player Pittsburgh Pirates to begin his major -league career with a home run when he hit his first pitc h in Although the Pirates chased a playoff the big leagues o ver the left field fence berth about this same time last season, in a victory at Houston. this year’s team is different. Just look at Unlike last season’s, this year’s Pirates the offense, which scored the most runs in team is for real. F or the first time in 20 the major leagues between June and July. years, the Pirates will be pla ying some Pittsburgh native Neil Walker (18) and the Pirates ha ve the city buzzing as the team In addition, the pitc hing staff this meaningful baseball as Pitt students ar - seeks its ﬁrst winning season since 1992. MCT Campus year has been just as phenomenal. They rive back on campus. received a huge boost when general manmer was pretty quiet for the six-time SuThe major news of the summer came ager Neal Huntington dealt a package of Pittsburgh Steelers per Bowl champs, as they regrouped fol- on the coaching front, with head coac h minor-leaguers for Houston Astros leftlowing an embarrassing loss to the Denver Pittsburgh 119 handed ace Wandy Rodriguez in late July. As per usual with the Steelers, the sum- Broncos during last year’s playoffs.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Panthers improve their games at Greentree summer league Freshman center Steven Adams and other Panthers draws big crowds to small gym

Invitational championship run. But unlike the regular season last year, he never hesitated behind the 3-point line, hitting 25 3-pointers With the conclusion of the Pittsburgh Basket- in summer league competition. ball Club Pro-Am Summer League on July 19, “You never know when you’re going to have Pitt fans caught their last glimpse of this year’s to make a tough shot, so summer league is the men’s basketball players until late November. best time to practice that instead of during the PGT Trucking, a team featuring a host of season,” Patterson said. “I know [Pitt] Coach current and future Panthers, brought home [Jamie] Dixon is not going to allow that. I just the championship title in front of a large want to be able to get shots up in the ﬂ ow of crowd at the Greentree SportsPlex. the game rather than in the back by myself.” Here’s a look at the performances of a few But more importantl y, Patterson has current and incoming Panthers who shined shown a willingness to use his strength while during the summer league. driving to the basket. Since he is alread y a polished passer, his improved ability to drive Lamar Patterson, redshirt junior, small to the basket will open up the ﬂoor for shootforward ing teammates like J.J. Moore, Travon Woodall and John Johnson this season. There’s no denying that Patterson was the best player throughout the summer league Steven Adams, freshman, center season, and he is likely to be Pitt’s best scoring option in 2012. Facing impossibly high expectations as In nine games at Greentree, Patterson av- Pitt’s most highly rated recruit ever, Adams, eraged a league-best 23.3 points per game. a 7-foot center from New Zealand, entered This, along with 7.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists, as the summer league’s biggest attraction. helped lead PGT to the title. And encouragingly for Pitt fans, A dams By scoring in a variety of ways, Patterson showed the same aggressiveness he displayed Sophomore guard Cam Wright (right) showed an improved offensive game at Green121 tree this summer. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor Greentree last season during Pitt ’s College Basketball

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Professional athletes add to Olympic competition London Games prove big-name stars love representing their respective countries Jasper Wilson Assistant Sports Editor

British tennis star Andy Murray celebrates his men’s singles gold medal after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the ﬁnal at Wimbledon in London. MCT Campus

When I began w atching this summer ’s London Olympics, I w as drawn to the team sports. Ho wever, I soon realized that it w asn’t so muc h the team sports aspect that attracted me, but rather the talented athletes whose names I alread y recognized: the professionals. The Olympic creed reads: “ The most important thing in the Ol ympic Games is not to win but to tak e part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the strug gle. The essential thing is not to ha ve conquered, but to have fought well.” But this romanticized idea no longer fits into the sc heme of the Games, if it ever did, whic h brought athletes from 204 countries to the U nited Kingdom from July 27 to Aug. 12. Look no further than the conc lusion of the breathtaking semi -final women’s soccer match between the United States and Canada. The Canadians led until the very end of the 4-3 overtime thriller, and seeing the shared looks of emptiness on the players’ faces, y ou knew that they

weren’t satisfied with just ha ving competed and obtained a c hance to win a bronze medal. They wanted to beat their rivals. They wanted a shot to win a gold medal. The idealized Ol ympic Games don ’t exist. While the modern Olympics began as an amateur competition, suc h a setup doesn’t make sense no w. Wrestlers and boxers are the onl y amateurs who com pete in the games currentl y; everyone else is allowed to be a professional. Miami Heat star Dwy ane Wade, who played for the underwhelming bronze medal team in A thens in 2004 and then the dominant American men’s basketball team in Beijing fours y ear ago, sparked controversy when he suggested that NBA players should get paid for competing in the Olympics. Given his success at the Games, you would think he kno ws that Olympic athletes do recei ve compensation, but only if they win. The United States Olympic Committee awards $25,000 to athletes who win gold at the Ol ympics, with sil ver and bronze medal winners collecting $15, 000 and

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Pitt student-athletes travel to Haitian orphanages Trio of football players among group of 16 Panthers to make trip

RJ Sepich Sports Editor Hubie Graham recently traveled to Haiti, but he didn’t come home with his new pair of tennis shoes. That’s because the redshirt senior tight end on the Pitt foot ball team gave his Nikes to a young Haitian boy. And to Graham’s amazement, instead of putting the shoes on his feet, the boy immediately took them to his father , because his father had nev er owned a pair of shoes. “For having absolutely nothing, they are so selfless,” Graham said of his experiences with the Haitian people. As part of a group led by Vince Burens, the chief operating officer for the Coalition for Christian Outreach at Pitt, and Mark Steffey, a campus minister working with the CCO, Graham and 15 other Pitt student-athletes journeyed to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, after spring classes ended to volunteer for six days at a pair of orphanages in the poverty-stricken Caribbean country. Mark Giubilato, a redshirt sophomore linebacker on the football team, said he was in the car last winter with Graham when the pair got the email asking if anyone would be interested in going on the trip. Giubilato said he was immediately interested, because he didn’t want to pass on the

opportunity to go and regret not going later on. “You hear a lot of ideas about this kind of stuff, and over time it just sort of fades out like, ‘Oh, I could have done that, but I didn’t,’” he said. “I really wanted to take advantage of this and I’m sure everyone else was the same.” Sixteen Pitt athletes — three football players, three wrestlers, six women’s soccer players, two women’s divers, one women’s swimmer and one men’s soccer player — volunteered at the EBAC orphanage in Cap-Haitien. The orphanage, which was established in 1978 by Fayette County, Pa., natives Alice Wise and Kathy Gouker, houses about 90 Haitian orphans. The idea for the trip developed from a conversation that Steffey, who has worked at Pitt for four years as a minister to student-athletes, had with the chaplain for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Penguins. “My relationship with B rad Henderson, who’s the chaplain for the Pirates and Penguins and the president for the Pittsburgh Kids Foundation, is really what led to this trip ,” Steffey said. “Brad has taken many groups down to Haiti over the years.” Steffey also said the timing felt right to plan a trip of this magnitude. “I’ve built relationships with students,” he

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Hubie Graham was one of more than a dozen Pitt student-athletes to travel to Haiti in May to volunteer at a pair of orphanages in the p overty-stricken Caribbean country. Courtesy of Pitt Athletics

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Rutgers, Louisville favorited to win Big East football championship in 2012 Dustin Gabler Senior Staff Writer Another season of Big E ast football is nearly upon us, and the battle for the conference title is as open as it ever has been. Defending champions the West Virginia Mountaineers bolted for the Big 12 this summer, meaning a new team will raise the Big East Championship trophy this year.

With all eight teams entering the 2012 campaign with legitimate hopes of be coming a contender for the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s automatic berth to a Bowl Championship Series game, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I think the standings will shake out when another hectic season in the Big East comes to an end.

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Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson would like to see the Panthers win the Big East before the University moves to the ACC in 2013. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

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MEN’S SOCCER

After frustrating 2011, youthful Panthers seek improved results Jasper Wilson Assistant Sports Editor

Despite suffering through one of the w orst seasons in the program ’s history, the 2011 Pitt men’s soccer team was better than what statistics suggested. At least, that’s how its members feel. Last year, the Panthers managed only four wins out of 18 games, finishing with a disappointing record of 4-13-1 (2-7 Big East). But even after losing five seniors at graduation, head coach Joe Luxbacher is confident that this year’s team will be much improved. “We’ll be more talented than w e have been,” said Luxbacher, who has been the head coach at Pitt since 1984. Sophomore forward Chu Chu Onyeukwu doesn’t think the team was as bad last season as it looked on paper. “I don’t think we were really that far behind,” he said. “Last year, we were just missing an ‘it’ factor or something. W e kept on losing games by one goal. [Our improvement] will probably seem like a lot more on the score sheet because we’ll be scoring more.” Junior defender Alex Harrison said not performing as the team knew it could time and again was infuriating.

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New NFL season full of captivating storylines Peyton Manning finds a new home in Denver, while rookie quarterbacks hope to succeed for Colts, Redskins Isaac Saul Senior Staff Writer With the Ol ympics having overshadowed an A ugust that is usuall y boiling over with anticipation, it seemed that the NFL and all of its drama had gone into hiding across sports media. Yet the NFL pre -season has arri ved, and we are just getting our first glances at the new NFL teams and what they have to offer. This month has alread y tossed the NFL soap-opera drama into full swing. Philadelphia Eagles head coac h Andy Reid’s son passed away, aging wide re ceiver Terrell Owens found another new team in Seattle, the first female NFL official made her debut as the league called in replacement referees during an official strike and the Jets couldn’t stop fighting each other at training camp. As is the case with every NFL season, the biggest question marks lie at the quarterback position. Here are some quick hits on a few major story lines — starting with the QB s — and ho w I see them shaking out in the 2012 NFL sea son.

Peyton Manning in Denver When I hear someone doubt Peyton Manning or question the Broncos’ move on this one, I simpl y shake my head. I understand his neck is a question mark after he missed all of 2011 with an inju ry. I know he’s passed the 30-year landmark in age. But this could be the best quarter back of all time, and he’ s nowhere near out of gas. Manning has fire in his ey es and is backed by a team that won a playoff game last season with Tim T ebow throwing passes for it. I repeat: Tim Tebow. I’d be shoc ked if the B roncos weren’t a 10-win team. Andrew Luck in Indianapolis Speaking of Peyton Manning being one of the greatest quarterbac ks of all time, how would you feel trying to tak e over the franchise he led for the past 14 seasons? That’s what’s on Luc k’s plate this

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Panthers hoping to develop prolific offense under new coaching staff this fall Donnie Tasser Staff Writer

After getting shut out 13 times last season, the Pitt women’s soccer team has to look no further than that statistic to see why it finished the 2011 campaign with a dismal 2-13-4 record (1-8-2 in the Big East). But under new head coach Greg Miller, who served as associate head coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Panthers hope to rebound instead of rebuild in 2012 in order to return to the postseason for the first time since 2008. “Coach Miller is awesome,” senior forward Ashley Cuba said of the new coach. “Our team is a complete 180 from last year. He asks more from us individually and is always positive. Our mentality is different. We were down on ourselves a lot last season, even when we won. This year we expect more from ourselves, and we are working hard.” She also said the team has been working more on offensive maneuvers, which was the team’s biggest weakness last season. Senior goalkeeper Kristina Rioux echoed Cuba’s statement, saying that this year’s team has more self-confidence. “We’re completely different from last

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Quarterback transfers Jasper Wilson Assistant Sports Editor

Pitt’s women’s soccer team hopes to improve under its new head coach. Arthur Wessel | For The Pitt News

year,” she said. “Our attitude is much better, we’re playing much better and supporting each other. Coach Miller is preparing us to win and has us focusing on this year and not on what happened last season.” Even though they were just exhibition matches, the Panthers won more games this past spring than they did all of last fall, opening the spring season with a record of 4-0 and

outscoring opponents 9-2. These stats are in sharp contrast to the team’s performance last season, when it was outscored 46-14. The most telling of this season’s wins was a 3-2 nail biter over Maryland, a 2011 NCAA Tournament team.

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Pitt’s football team is starting the season with two players less than it intended to. Backup quarterback Mark Myers left the program and transferred, while offensive lineman Juantez Hollins is suspended for the entirety of the 2012 season and freshman wideout Chris Davis sat out the first week of camp for disciplinary reasons, all according to a press release issued by the team on Aug. 3. Hollins, a redshirt junior, started seven games last year and saw time in all 13 games for the Panthers. The reason for his punishment was described in the release as a violation of team policy. Myers redshirted his freshman year and then saw the field sparingly under former head coach Todd Graham. He played in four games while completing just one of four passes for 5 yards and punting once for 46 yards. The team now has three eligible quarterbacks, given the impending transfer: starting redshirt senior Tino Sunseri, freshman Chad Voytik and sophomore Trey Anderson. Redshirt sophomore Anthony Gonzalez, who has seen time as quarterback in the past, has made the position switch to defensive back.

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Strong’s group, and Louisville’s defense was ranked 10th in the nation against the run. In a conference full of strong rushing attacks, the Cardinals will need a similarly stingy rush defense this season to compete for the Big East title. Despite being chosen as the preseason conference favorite by the media, the Cardinals may struggle to win the Big East in 2012 because the schedule does them no favors. Louisville must travel to Pitt in mid-October before finishing the regular season at Rutgers.

1. Rutgers The Scarlet Knights enter 2012 with the reigning Big East co-Defensive Player of the Year, Khaseem Greene, anchoring a defense returning eight starters from a 2011 campaign that sa w Rutgers finish with the conference’s best defense. Five-star recruit Darius Hamilton will also bolster first-year head coach Kyle Flood’s defensive unit. On offense, Rutgers returns seven starters with Jawan Jamison, Jeremy Deering and Savon Huggins anchoring a solid rushing attack for the Scarlet Knights, who finished last season with a surprising 9-4 record. Even with a rookie head coach in Flood, who succeeds the NFL-bound Greg Schiano, and a quarterback battle between Gary Nova and Chas Dodd, Rutgers still has a great opportunity to win the conference this season. In the mediocre Big East, even major flaws like the lack of a set quarterback and a new coac h shouldn’t rule out a trip to a BCS game.

3. Pittsburgh The Pitt Panthers enter this season to very little hype. Following Todd Graham’s one-anddone season, new head coach Paul Chryst has brought a mellow approach that’s kept the Panthers out of the summer headlines. Pitt only returns 12 starters from last year’s 6-6 team, but the Panthers still have plenty of talent. D efensive tackle Aaron Donald will anchor the defensive line and, if healthy, star running back Ray Graham, who led the nation in rushing before his season-ending injury in Week 8 last season, will be the top returning pla yer in the conference. With Graham, sophomore Isaac Bennett and freshman Rushel Shell composing one of the most talented groups of running backs in the country, Chryst’s offense will focus on the run and try to take some heat off senior quarterback Tino Sunseri. But the Panthers’ downfall in 2012 may be a lack of depth, and barring a season with very few injuries, the team will struggle to keep up with the Big East’s top two teams.

2. Louisville The Cardinals return 17 total starters (eight on offense, nine on defense) in 2012 — the most of an y team in the confer ence — and star sophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewater will look to build on an impressive freshman season after he won the Big E ast Newcomer of the Year Award in 2011. The second-best defense in the conference last season belonged to Coach Charlie

4. Cincinnati The Bearcats turn to Munchie Legaux, an athletic quarterback who saw play

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Volleyball team reloads itself for upcoming season Bolstered by strong freshmen, Panthers look to pick up where they left off in 2012 replace the recently graduated Kiesha Leggs. As a senior starter and captain on the 2011 team, Leggs led the team in kills and blocks As the returning Pitt volleyball players take and was named an All-American Honorable the court in preparation for the 2012 season, Mention. one of the most highly regarded recruiting Rens sees the potential for Boddy to fill classes in the program ’s history will join the void left by Leggs, despite her being a them. freshman. Prepvolleyball.com, an online volleyball “Jessica is a well-trained middle blocker,” resource, gave Pitt’s incoming fi ve-player Rens said in a press release announcing the recruiting class an “honorable mention” recruiting class. “She will add depth to that distinction in its annual report. W ith this position and she has an opportunity to make nationally recognized class, Pitt head coach an impact early on in her career.” Toby Rens is excited about the upcoming Durham, Orchard and Striedl are outside season, which starts this fall. hitters who will contribute to the Panther “This class has a winning mentality and offensive attack, while Jacobson comes to the a competitive attitude,” Rens said. “We are team as a setter. As the setter is responsible excited to have them join the Pitt family.” for dictating the pace of the off ense, Rens All five new additions to the Pitt volleyball is confident in Jacobson’s ability to lead on program hail from the state of Illinois, where the court. each was named to the Chicago T ribune “Jenna not only brings a great skill set All-State Team after their senior years. Jes- with her to Pitt, but also a wonderful attitude sica Boddy, Casey Durham, Jenna Jacobson, and work ethic,” Rens said. “She has a feel Amanda Orchard and Mary Striedl will all for the game and makes great decisions.” become Panthers in the fall, and according While the abilities of the incoming class to Rens, each will bring unique skills to the provide optimism for the future, the Pan 2012 squad. thers will also be able to dra w valuable Boddy, a 6-foot-3 middle blocker, will experience from returning pla yers in the be a crucial member of the team as she will

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MEN’S SOCCER “We lost to a few teams last y ear, and after the game we would go into the locker room kicking ourselves trying to work out how we’d just lost to a side that wasn’t on the same level as us,” Harrison said in an email. In addition to ha ving trouble scoring goals in 2011, the team also strug gled to prevent opponents from finding the net and ended the year with a 1.79 goals-against average — second worst in the Big East. But the fi rst-year performance of no wsophomore goalkeeper Lee Johnston was impressive, under the circumstances (11 starts, two shutouts and a 1.32 goals-against average), and Luxbacher said he has the inside track to a position as a starter. When the season begins, J ohnston will have competition in the net from incoming freshman Dan Lynd and senior Mark Hast. Such competition exists for the rest of the positions as well. According to Luxbacher, no player is guaranteed any spot on the team or in the starting lineup. The preseason roster names 30 players, but only 25 will remain at the start of the regular season. Making substantial progress is the goal for the 2012 Pitt men ’s soccer team, but as a member of one of the top college soccer conferences in the country, climbing the standings can be difficult. Seven of the 16 Big E ast teams made it to the 2011 Di vision I NCAA Tournament,

the largest contingent of an y conference just talk about ho w it’s done,” Luxbacher by far. Luxbacher admitted that playing in said. “You need leadership. It doesn’t have such an unforgiving league is a diﬃcult task to come from seniors.” for his squad. The players appear ready for the added “It’s like Big East basketball. If you’re not responsibility. on all cylinders, things can get bad reall y Harrison, a captain, says he’ll do all he can quickly,” he said. to help the newcomers adjust and sees leadOne of the major hurdles to consistent ership qualities in many of his teammates. play last year that the team had to overcome Onyeukwu, for one, knows he has a role was its youth: 17 members of the 25 -man to play. roster were underclassmen. “When the freshmen come, they’ll get up The spring season to speed. As long as provided an opporyou lead them in the tunity to gain more right direction, I’m experience and in sure they’ll follow,” crease cohesion Onyeukwu said. within the team — an Toward the end of opportunity the team last season, the Pandidn’t let go to waste. thers strung together “After spring ball, a few impressive deI saw massive steps fensive performances in the right direc in their recurrent detion in the w ay we feats, including oneplay,” Harrison said. goal games against “It was inspiring to NCAA tournament see how hungry evJoe Luxbacher teams Providence eryone was to work and then-No. 1 Conhard. Every session necticut. was 100 percent and this transitioned onto “The lack of experience w as the factor the ﬁeld.” for us not earning a tie or even a win, which With eight more incoming pla yers this we deserved in a lot of these games, ” Harseason, the need to ha ve a quick learning rison said. curve won’t go away. So the burden is on In total, Pitt lost seven contests by a single all returning players to help the new com- goal last fall. The ability to take points (three ers adapt. for a victory and one for a draw) this season “It’s critical. You need guys who walk the from such games will pro ve crucial to the walk, who show you how it’s done and don’t team’s success.

“You need guys who can walk the walk, who show you how it’s done and don’t just talk about how it’s done.”

117 “[We want to be] good enough to get a result [tie or win]. That ’s the goal,” Luxbacher said. J.R. Eskilson, a writer for Topdrawersoccer.com, says the nature of the college game makes predicting Pitt’s progress this year nearly impossible. “There’s always a possibility to ex ceed expectations,” Eskilson said of Pitt. “But [this season] is just about showing improvement. You want to see more goals scored and less goals conceded.” Onyeukwu attributed last season’s scoring struggles to the team’s youth. “I think part of not scoring has a lot to do with the youth in our team and our in experience,” he said. “When you’re coming in as a young player, you’re trying to make a difference automatically because you want to keep playing, and what that leads to is impatience on the fi eld. You make a lot of mistakes.” He doesn’t think those issues will return now that they have the benefit of one year’s experience. “Everyone, together, we’ve got the [right] level of confidence. We know we can score,” the sophomore forward said. “Just keep the ball, take our time and we’ll score more goals.“ Whatever issues plagued the team last year, ultimately the only thing that will remedy them will be victories in 2012. “There’s no cookbook formula [for winning],” Luxbacher said. “There are no easy games. We have to battle. We have to find a way to get it done.”

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year],” senior guard Chris J acobson said of Chryst’s offense. “The whole tempo and system is different, but now we’re back to how we used to be under Coach Wannstedt, playing pro-style football and trying to hit someone in the mouth.” Wannstedt recruited Jacobson and the other upperclassmen to play pro-style football. This should gi ve Chryst an advantage over Graham, who was attempting a complete change in the playing style. Following 2011’s lackluster season, the older Pitt players are reminding everyone of the success that the Panthers had under Wannstedt. “We understand what w e’re expected to do each and every play,” Sunseri said. “Even though [Wannstedt’s and Chryst’s systems] are very similar, they are also very different. But you can always resort back to [what we did under Wannstedt] to look at the success we had.” While every coach’s offense has its own nuances and terminolog y that make the playbooks different, the overall theme of Wannstedt’s and Chryst’s systems share a common message: establish the running game to set up the passing attack. And when the ball does go in the air , targeting the tight ends will likely be a focus. Since arriving, Chryst has focused on tight end recruiting and has already used several two- and three-tight-end forma-

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Pitt’s fourth head coac h in less than tw o years when Graham shockingly left for Arizona State after less than a year in the position, will look to reinstate a running mindset by mimicking the power offense he built during his time as offensive coordinator for back-to-back Big Ten champion, Wisconsin. “We don’t apologize if w e can line up and knock the heck out of [the other team],” Chryst said of his offensive style at his introductory press conference. “That’s fun.” At Wisconsin, Chryst liked to use multiple running backs. And luckily for Pitt’s new head coach, he not only inherits one of the best ball carriers in the nation in senior Ray Graham, but also has talented backups at his disposal in sophomore Isaac Bennett and exciting freshman Rushel Shell. Unlike Todd Graham’s offense last season, the running game will be do wnhill with the quarterback taking snaps from under center and handing the ball off to the rusher in a traditional fashion. Chryst won’t rely on quarterback Tino Sunseri’s running abilities to offset the running backs, and don’t expect the Panthers to run much from the shotgun. We also won’t see Pitt’s offense hurrying to get off as many snaps as possible, like the team did under Graham last season. “Obviously, it feels different [than last

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PITTSBURGH

The Steelers’ preseason began with a loss to cross-state rivals Philadelphia. MCT Campus

Mike Tomlin signing an extension that will keep him on the sidelines at Heinz Field through the 2016 season. Management also fired offensive coordinator Bruce Arians and tabbed former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley to fill the role. In addition to the coac hing change, the Steelers added a number of y oung, talented players to their roster in April’s NFL Draft. Most notably, first-round selection David DeCastro — a guard out of Stanford — should contribute immedi ately on the offensive line. Other draft picks who figure to see time on the field this season are offensive tackle Mike Adams from Ohio State, former Miami (Fla.) linebacker Sean Spence and speedy running back Chris Rainey. While the acquisitions of DeCastro and Adams will help protect star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, there is still concern about the impending loss of wide receiver Mike Wallace, Roethlisberger’s favorite target. Wallace, widely regarded as the fastest receiver in the game, could not come to an agreement on a contract extension before

training camp began on July 25. But even if the Steelers do not retain Wallace past this season, history has shown that the Steelers ’ front office is more than capable of finding and dev eloping replacements. Pittsburgh Penguins Everyone in the hockey world already knows that team captain Sidney Cros by signed a 12-year mega-deal with the Penguins, keeping him in Pittsburgh for the rest of his career at an a verage salary of $8.7 million per year. While Penguins fans should be excited to have Crosby in Pittsburgh for that long, they should be skeptical about guaranteeing such a long contract to a pla yer who has only appeared in 63 games in the last two seasons due to concussions. If Crosby suffers another concussion, his hockey career will be in jeopardy and the Penguins w ould be stuc k with the

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August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com ence stood to applaud Martin and Dixon. Many of the fans gathered at the cer emony in Canton made the trip from Pittsburgh to celebrate the careers of Martin

with the Jets. However, what Parcells said he loves the most about Martin is the way he represents professional football players. “He is, I think, the poster child for what the NFL is supposed to be,” Parcells said. “You come into the league, maximize your abilities, save your money, make a smooth transition into society and then you pass all those things on to other people.” But Martin said none of that would’ve happened if it weren’t for his mother. Dixon did nothing but guide her son to success, no matter what the cost w as. After dealing with the murder of her own mother, she worked two jobs to support her family, hoping that Curtis w ouldn’t live a life full of drugs and violence lik e his father had. R ochella was all her son had left and she needed to remain com posed in order to be there throughout his young life. To conclude his speech, Martin stated that the greatest ac hievement in his life was not his Jets franchise records in rushing yards (10,302) and touchdowns (58). Bill Parcells Nor was it his induction to the NFL Hall of Fame. “My greatest achievement in my life and another former Panthers football star, was healing my mother and nurturing my Chris Doleman, who played at Pitt from mother,” Martin said. 1981 to 1984. After those words, the teary-eyed audiMartin and Doleman became the sev-

“He is, I think, the poster child for what the NFL is supposed to be. You come into the league, maximize your abilities, save your money, make a smooth transition into society and then pass all those things on to other people.”

enth and eighth former Panthers to be enshrined in the Pro F ootball Hall of Fame, joining Mike Ditka (tight end, 19571960), Russ Grimm (guard, 1977-1980), Rickey Jackson (linebacker, 1977-1980), Dan Marino (quarterback, 1979-1982), Joe Schmidt (linebacker, 1949-1952) and Pitt’s only Heisman Trophy winner, Tony Dorsett (running back, 1973-1976). Doleman, like Martin, said his big football decisions were also very familyoriented. The former Minnesota Vikings defensive end revealed that he chose to attend Pitt so his parents could come w atch his games. He had a long list of people to thank, mentioning his o wn children three times. Doleman joined the prestigious 100 sack club early in his career and finished fourth on the NFL ’s all-time sack list with 150.5 tackles on the quarterbac k. He shone throughout the 1 989 season, reaching 21 sacks — a Vikings record at the time. After his long list of those he appre ciated, Doleman took a quic k second to think about how he had reached the podium in Canton. “Anything you want in life, you can get through sacks,” he concluded with a smile. Martin and Doleman joined Willie Roaf, Cortez Kennedy and former Pitts burgh Steelers Dermontti Dawson and Jack Butler in the group of those honored as the 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees.

Panthers enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Mike Ditka

Pitt tight end, 1957-1960 Chicago Bears

Russ Grimm

Pitt guard, 1977-1980 Washington Redskins

Rickey Jackson

Pitt linebacker, 1977-1980 New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers

Dan Marino

Pitt quarterback, 1979-1982 Miami Dolphins

Chris Doleman

Pitt defensive end, 1981-1984 Minnesota Vikings

Curtis Martin

Pitt running back, 1991-1994 New England Patriots, New York Jets

Joe Schmidt

Pitt linebacker, 1949-1952 Detroit Lions

Tony Dorsett

Pitt running back, 1973-1976 Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos

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why he’s a welcome addition to Pitt ’s basketball team, averaging 13.8 points and 5.8 rebounds for the league’s tournament chamdidn’t fail to impress. pion, PGT. Averaging 11.6 points and 12.4 rebounds “Trey is another playmaker for us,” Patper game in nine contests, Adams appeared terson said of Zeigler. “He can shoot the ball to be the post presence Pitt missed during last and pass it, and he works hard — he’s a comseason’s struggles. For the most part, Adams petitor.” dominated his opponents defensi vely, disAlthough he struggled from behind the playing rare mobility for a player of his size. 3-point line, Zeigler constantly attacked the Adams also showed good touch around the basket, using his agility and size to outma rim with a developing hook shot and tip-ins neuver those guarding him. He also provided from a variety of locations, but his greatest solid rebounding for his position. asset is his rebounding ability. He consistently A Pitt starting bac kcourt of Zeigler and positioned himself correctly under the basket, point guard Woodall should fare well against and he showed that he is a pla yer willing to Big East competition because of W oodall’s fight for every missed shot. shooting touch and Zeigler’s ability to attack “I’m just pla ying, just doing what the the basket on every possession. coaches tell me, really. Run, post up, screen — I’m just trying to make good decisions for Talib Zanna, redshirt junior, power forour team,” Adams said in a Pitt News article ward earlier this summer. Without a doubt, the addition of Adams to In his three years at Pitt, the storyline with Pitt’s roster will force other teams to change Zanna as a player has always revolved around their game plans in order to compensate for his consistency. At times, he appeared to be his size and skill in the post. a power forward with athleticism and size that wowed NBA scouts. On other occasions, Trey Zeigler, junior, shooting guard Zanna appeared raw, often struggling to convert simple baskets. An off-season transfer from C entral But during the summer league season, Michigan University, Zeigler arrived at Pitt Zanna displayed a revamped offensive arsenal as an established college bask etball player. that included an eff ective mid-range jump He earned a reputation as one of the most shot, allowing him to average 14.6 points highly sought after players while he was a per game in nine games. As an already estabsenior in high school. Greentree 125 During the summer league, Zeigler showed

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VOLLEYBALL approaching season. The Pitt squad returns four of its six starters from last season, losing onl y two seniors at graduation. Sophomore setter Lindsey Zitzke, junior outside hitter Monica Wignot and seniors Margy Acton and Alexa Campbell will be bac k to provide leader-

“When we come back this year, we will be hungrier and more prepared to face that competition.” Jessica Wynn

Sophomore libero Delaney Clesen and her teammates hope to build on their 2011 campaign. Luc Felak | For The Pitt News

ship and share their experience in collegiate competition. Zitzke said she takes the role of leadership seriously, and she hopes to facilitate a cohesive 2012 squad. “Being the setter, I know I have to be consistent and work to make our oﬀ ense run eﬃciently,” Zitzke said. “Keeping up communication on the court can help, and it gets everyone involved.”

Another returning Panther, sophomore outside hitter Jessica Wynn, is also confident in the team’s ability to build from 2011. “As young players last year, we got a taste of intense competition,” Wynn said. “When we come back this year, we will be hungrier and more prepared to face that competition.” That 2011 team finished with a winning 18-15 record and, after playing in the competitive Big East, earned a bid in the conference tournament. Rens believes that the combination of new pla yers and veterans will be beneficial to the team as it embarks on the 2012 campaign. “The current players are excited for the new recruits to join the Pitt famil y,” Rens said. “We are ready to start w orking together.” The Panthers will face fi ve teams that earned NCAA tournament bids last season, including Big East rivals Louisville and Cincinnati. The opening match of the season is set for Aug. 24 when the Panthers will face George Washington in the Mortar Board Premier Tournament hosted by Purdue. Pitt will host its o wn tournament the following weekend, and Big E ast conference play will begin on Sept. 22 when the Panthers travel to Seton Hall. The team will then return to its home, the Fitzgerald Field House, to host the Cincinnati Bearcats on Sept. 28. Following the regular season, the Fitzgerald Field House will also be the site of the Big East Championship tournament, which will begin on Nov. 16.

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5. South Florida Despite low expectations, the Bulls will have an early chance to shoot up on everyone’s list when they meet Rutgers on Sept. 13. Talented quarterback B.J. Daniels returns to lead the Bulls after he a veraged 236.7 yards passing per game in 2011 — a number that was good enough to rank him second best in the Big East last season. South Florida got out to a hot start in 2011 at 4 -0, but Coach Skip Holtz ’s team faltered down the stretch, finishing with a record of 5-7. With an aggressive linebacker corps of DeDe Lattimore, Sam Barrington and Michael Lanaris keying the defense, the Bulls will hope to start and finish strong in 2012.

6. Syracuse In its final year in the Big East before moving to the A CC along with Pitt in 2013, the Orange will look to return to

the top of the conference. Unlike many Big East teams, Syracuse can boast a solid and experienced of fensive line, but this season, Coach Doug Marrone loses his 1, 000 yard rusher from last season, Antw on Bailey. Returning quarterback Ryan Nassib and his top two targets, seniors Alec Lemon and Marcus Sales, provide some stability, but with Syracuse’s youthful defense, expect teams to put up big points against the Orange. While the offense is decent, it won’t be enough to keep up with its below-average defense, and Syracuse may miss a bowl game for the second consecutive season.

7. Temple Led by second-year head coach Steve Addazio, the Owls rejoin the Big E ast after being kicked out of the conference in 2004. And with onl y nine return ing starters — the lo west of any Big East team — don’t expect much out of

123 Temple this season. Although the roster is comprised of mostly mid-major talent, the Owls’ running back combination of Matt Brown and Boston C ollege-transfer Montel Harris will be the team’s strength. This team will frequently run the ball to try and scrap out a few conference victo ries. And if T emple can keep Addazio around and lure some N ew Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania recruits to Philadelphia, the Owls could develop into a competitive Big East team in the near future.

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August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com 8. Connecticut Just two years removed from winning the conference, the Huskies will likely finish as the last-placed team in the Big East this season. The defense returns every linebacker and secondary starter, but opposing rushing attacks will beat up the defensive line before the back seven can make an impact. On offense, Lyle McCombs will give second-year Coach Paul Pasqualoni a legitimate starting running back, while Chandler Whitmer, a junior college transfer, has been named the team’s starting quarterback heading into fall camp. He can only improve upon Conneticut’s pass-

ing offense that finished last in the conference in 2011. An unfavorable schedule highlighted by facing Rutgers and Louisville on the road adds to the Huskies’ problems, so this season will focus on building the program’s future around the talented sophomore offensive duo of McCombs and Whitmer.

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W SOCCER “I think the team has adapted quite well to the many changes we implemented last spring,” Miller said. “There were a lot of new things we introduced as a staff that were both exciting and at times difficult. They took it all in stride and never complained about any of it. At the very least, we hope what you’ll see different from last year is a more fit and organized team that will be tougher to play.” The team’s three captains — Rioux, senior defender Abby Baldys and junior midfielder Caroline Keefer — carry a lot of responsibilities both on and off the field. “Being named captain for my senior season is great,” Rioux said. “But it comes with a lot of added responsibility. Abby, Caroline and I are up to it, and we want to focus on moving forward, making sure everyone is doing their responsibilities on and off the field and providing leadership so we can win games.” Coach Miller pointed out Cuba and juniors Katie Lippert and Alyssa Meier as other players who should have a big year ahead of them. “All have a great deal of experience on the field, and all had a strong spring,” he said. Cuba leads the way offensively for the Panthers. As a third-team All-Big East selection last season, Cuba set the school’s all-time goal-scoring mark — 21, topping the old record of 19 — in just three years. “It’s pretty awesome having the record,” Cuba said. “I never expected to be able to do it in three years, and it’s nice to have it out of the way. I can look back on that later as a great thing, but right now it’s on the back burner. I want to win.” Despite all of the positive changes happening to the program, Miller is not getting ahead of himself. “We will sit down during preseason as a team and set some realistic goals for ourselves after we get an idea of what we have to work with and how fit the team is,” Miller said. “I am confident the team’s focus will be to be more competitive, which will hopefully translate to more wins, especially in [the Big East].” While Miller doesn’t want his players to forget last year, he does want them to put the dismal year behind them and take on the new season with a positive attitude. “As we have told the returning team, and we will certainly convey it to the newcomers, no one is here to dwell on the past and point fingers,” he said. “We will have 10 new players this fall who have not experienced the college game. This is a new team, a new year that will share new experiences, new goals and new objectives.” The Panthers will play nine non-conference games in late August and early September before beginning their Big East play at home at the Petersen Sports Complex against Marquette on Sept. 13. With a new coach and a new attitude, the 2012 Pitt women’s soccer team will hope to score more goals and record more wins than it has in recent years. “[We’re] really excited to see what kind of product we can produce,” Miller said.

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GREENTREE lished rebounder, Zanna averaged 10 boards per game. While it remains to be seen whether Zanna can translate this progress to the NCAA season — he commented that his team’s diminished roster forced him to tak e on added scoring responsibilities — it certainly shows that he is placing new emphasis on his offensive game. Cameron Wright, redshirt sophomore, shooting guard At times last year, Wright appeared to be overwhelmed by the talent within the Big East Conference. Although he showed signs of being a serviceable player, he often strug gled mightily on the offensive end. In the off-season, Wright said he worked to improve his mid-range jump shot, and if the summer results are an indicator of his progress, then he might very well be a significant contributor to the team this season. Wright averaged 15.9 points per game with 4.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists in seven games while maintaining his aggressive, ball-hawking defensive presence. But it w as his off ensive

“I’m a lot more confident. My shooting, my midrange — that’s probably the best part of my game in transition.” Cameron Wright game that opened eyes this summer. After struggling with the ball last season, Wright erupted in the summer league by taking the ball to the hoop possession after possession. More impressively, Wright served as the go-to scorer for his team, UPMC. “I’m a lot more confi dent,” Wright said. “My shooting, my mid-range game — that’s probably the best part of my game in transition. And just putting all of those things to gether and still working on my defense like Coach Dixon told me to.” Along with the impressive performances produced by Patterson, Adams, Zeigler, Zanna and Wright, a few other Panthers also showcased their abilities at Greentree. Redshirt freshman guard Durand Johnson made a case for playing time by being one of the summer league’s most prolifi c scorers, while sophomore guard John Johnson, freshman guard James Robinson, senior forward Dante Taylor and sophomore center Malcolm Gilbert all proved that they can be v aluable members of the 2012 -2013 Pitt men’s basketball team.

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PITTSBURGH $100 million contract they just signed with him. But the biggest — and smartest — move made by general manager Ray Shero this summer was to send Pittsburgh fanfavorite Jordan Staal to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for 23-year-old center Brandon Sutter and 20-year-old defenseman Brian Dumoulin. A first-round pick also came with the trade, which freed up salary cap space for the Pens while strengthening the team’s defensive depth. Although fans were sad to see Staal go, they can take solace knowing Shero got a

great amount of value and young talent in exchange for him. Hopefully the Penguins will have a more well-rounded team in future years because of it. Pittsburgh Power The Power, Pittsburgh’s Arena Football League team, were the biggest disappointment in Pittsburgh sports this year. Hopes were high for the Power coming into the team’s 2012 campaign after finishing 9-9 and ranking second in the East Division in their first season. Unfortunately, this season, the Power lost a number of late leads and finished the year only 5-13, falling in at last place in

Although fans were sad to see Staal go, they can take solace in knowing Shero got a great amount of value and young talent in exchange for him.

the East. The poor play resulted in the firing of head coach Chris Siegfried after a 2-8 start, and replacing him with defensive coordinator Derek Stingley. Stingley coached the Power to a 3-5 record in his interim tenure before management announced, after the season, that Stingley will become the team’s new head coach for the 2013 season. Despite the Power’s struggles, there is certainly plenty for Pittsburgh professional sports fans to look forward to in the coming months as the surprising Pirates, the consistent Steelers and the talented Penguins are all set to challenge competitors for championship titles this year. FROM PAGE 102

TAGLIANETTI “We’ve always been pretty close outside of football,” Giubilato said of his relationship with Taglianetti. “We’re both involved in community service, along with Hubie Graham. When Hubie and Tags said they were going to Haiti and asked if I wanted to come along, I wasn’t going to miss that.” After returning from Haiti, Taglianetti said the trip changed the way he looks at life. “The impact we can have on their lives is kind of minuscule. The impact on us will last a lifetime,” he said. “It was tremendously eye-opening.” Taglianetti also recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business and is pursuing his MBA at Pitt’s Katz Graduate School of Business. After a busy summer of volunteering in Haiti and starring in local commercials, Taglianetti says he’s excited to start playing football again, and he hopes his versatility can help lead Pitt to the elusive Big East title in the school’s final season in the conference. “Hopefully we can win a Big East championship outright this year — that’s the ultimate goal,” he said. “I think we have what it takes with these players and this coaching staff to get it done.” Pitt’s new defensive secondary coach Matt House said he’s looking forward to seeing what Taglianetti can do this season to help the Panthers win. “I’m excited about coaching Tags,” House said. “He definitely comes to work every day. I just like the way he competes. He’s a great competitor, and it’s fun to watch.” Giubilato agreed, saying that despite Taglianetti’s relatively small size at 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds, his ability to make gamechanging plays for Pitt at Heinz Field begins with his incredible work ethic on the practice field. “He works his butt off every day, and it shows with how many plays he makes on defense and special teams,” Giubilato said. “He might not be the biggest or the strongest guy, but he plays just as hard as anybody in the country.”

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STYLE tions in practice. In Wannstedt’s best season in 2009, the Panthers had dominant tight ends N ate Byham and Dorin Dickerson. Both are now in the NFL. With Chryst’s offense that pairs ath letic tight ends with mismatc hed slower linebackers to develop the passing game, current Pitt tight ends Drew Carswell and Hubie Graham could see a lot of the ball in 2012. As for the wide recei vers, Chryst has instilled the concept of focusing on the catch first before the big play, while Graham talked about impact plays and often forced the ball down the field. “One of the things the recei vers have been working on in this offense is catching the ball, securing it and getting upfield to

“One of the things the receivers have been working on in this oﬀense is catching the ball, securing it and getting upﬁeld to get yards after the catch. Tino Sunseri get yards after the catc h,” said Sunseri, whom Chryst has already named as his starting quarterback for this season. “They want to become playmakers.” Despite all of the talk about pro -style and no-huddle football, one of the biggest differences between Chryst and Graham is the adaptability of the former. Graham forced a heavily pro-style group of players to play in his hurry-up system, which led to numerous errors from pro style quarterback Sunseri, a blown 21-point lead against Iowa and a tired defense much of the year. Chryst displayed his adaptability when Wisconsin added Russell Wilson as a fifthyear transfer last season. Wilson, a mobile quarterbac k, came to the Badgers in late J une, giving the offensive coordinator just o ver a month to write up a playbook for the new quarter back, yet Wilson flourished and developed into an All-American and Heisman trophy candidate. “No matter who w e have had, our offense has found a w ay to play to player’s strengths and not fit into a certain mold,”

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Chryst said of his s ystem’s adaptability. “To me, a coac h’s job is to put pla yers in positions to have success.” Expect to see Chry st learn Sunseri’s strengths early and build an offense ca tered to them, instead of forcing a huge workload upon him. Chryst will focus on short passes and play-action, and with suc h a dangerous running game, Pitt will run the ball until the defense shows that it can stop it, at which point Sunseri will sell the fake and look to find his recei vers open down the field. “This is a great offense to be in,” freshman quarterback Chad Voytik said. “It’s all Former head football coach Todd Graham brought a new style of play to Pitt,but it was anything but high octane. Ryan Samson | For The Pitt News about making the right reads.”

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other members of the Pitt w omen’s soccer team played their sport with some of the na tive children. said. “This was the right time to come to a group “Outside of the ID ADEE orphanage, we of them and say, ‘Let’s go somewhere and do ran a soccer clinic with the street kids from something signiﬁcant.’” the area. There were about 50 kids and seven The three football players to make the trip of us,” Benner said. “None of the kids spok e — Giubilato, Graham and redshirt senior safety English, whereas at the orphanage a lot of the Andrew Taglianetti — said they spent most kids spoke English, so that w as a whole new of their time at EB AC either playing with the experience — us trying to communicate with children or doing manual labor, such as lay- the kids and facilitate activities.” ing cement and cutting down trees around the Burens said that despite the language barproperty. rier, the Pitt athletes were able to connect with While the football players were at EBAC, the native people through sports. some of the other student-athletes visited the “The Haitians tend not to like to play soccer nearby IDADEE orphanage, where women’s with the Americans who come down, because soccer player Danielle Benner said she and the Americans who come do wn tend to be

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16 Pitt student-athletes traveled to Haiti to volunteer at two local orphanges. Courtesy Pitt Athletics

well-meaning people who are not v ery good at soccer,” he said with a laugh. “Well, we had six players from the women’s soccer team, one from the men’s soccer team and tw o very fit, large wrestlers to play soccer with them.” When it was time for the Pitt athletes to leave, they didn’t re-pack their bags. Instead, they all returned home with empty luggage after deciding to donate all of their clothing to the children of EBAC. Like Graham, Benner said she was amazed the kids never fought over the food or clothing the Pitt athletes provided them. “Not once did they fight. Not once did they argue,” she said. “It w as the most incredible thing I have ever seen. These kids who ha ve nothing are so willing to share with each other.” Steffey believes this trip could become a regular opportunity for Pitt athletes in the future, saying that numerous athletes have asked

Pitt athletes who went to Haiti

Danielle Benner, Women’s soccer Madison Gritsch, Women’s soccer Ali Matisse, Women’s soccer Kari Cunard, Women’s soccer Nicole Stiles, Women’s soccer Katie Lippert, Women’s soccer Ryan McKenzie, Men’s soccer Hubie Graham, Football Andrew Taglianetti, Football Mark Giubilato, Football Karl DeCiantis, Wrestling Matt Wilps, Wrestling Tyler Wilps, Wrestling Kim Ciotti, Diving Leigh Waltz, Diving Kristen Leigh McMullan, Swimming about going to Haiti next year. “I can say with conﬁdence that we probably would be able to tak e 30 student-athletes in the future,” he said. “I had a lot more interest in the trip than just these 15 student -athletes who went.” Taglianetti said he would deﬁnitely be interested in going again after the experience changed the way he looks at life. “The impact we can have on their lives is kind of miniscule. The impact on us will last a lifetime,” he said. “It was tremendously eyeopening.”

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com the ACC on July 1, 2013. The pa yment will be $2.5 million more than the $5 million withdrawal fee required under Big East bylaws had Pitt w aited until 2014 to exit the conference. “We have appreciated and enjo yed our membership in the Big East and wish them much success in the future, ” Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson said in a state ment. “We are anxious to compete in our ﬁnal season in the Big E ast and look for ward to an ex citing future in the A tlantic Coast Conference.”

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MISSED Championship in Boulder, Colo. Led by star senior Alex Thorne, the Panthers topped the W isconsin Badgers in the final, 15-10, earning the club its first championship since its inception in 1998. Returning team captain Zach Kauffman said Pitt w ants to retain the cro wn next season. “The goal is to win nationals, ” Kauffman said. “We’re planning on going bac kto-back; it’s what we’re striving for.” June 18 — Pitt hoops new comers debut at Greentree As the Pitt men ’s basketball program looks to rebound from a diffi cult 20112012 campaign, fans got a taste of what is to come when the Pitts burgh Basketball Club Pro-Am summer league displayed the talents of several new Panthers. Hundreds of fans pac ked into the gymnasium at the G reentree SportsPlex to watch Pitt’s three talk ed-about newcomers, Zeigler, freshman center Stev en Adams and freshman point guard J ames Robinson, play with fellow Panther and returning junior Lamar Patterson on the PGT Trucking team. PGT won that night, and the team fea turing four Panthers would eventually win the summer league in dramatic fashion a few weeks later, thanks to an overtime victory against a team stac ked with R obert Morris and Duquesne players. June 28 - Big East bas ketball matchups released When those new faces in Pitt basketball begin playing games for the Panthers, they will face a challenging Big East conference schedule that includes several much-anticipated home games. That’s because when the Big E ast released its conference matc hup schedule for all 15 teams, Pitt fans instantly became excited after seeing that the Panthers will host C onnecticut, Marquette, N otre Dame, Syracuse and Villanova this season. Also coming to the Petersen Events Center will be Cincinnati, D ePaul, Seton Hall and South Florida. Each team in the conference must face four teams twice, and Pitt will face Cin cinnati, DePaul, Marquette and V illanova both at home and away this season. July 18 — Pitt agrees to pa y fee to leave Big East in 2013 Perhaps the biggest news to aff ect Pitt Athletics this summer w as the announcement that the U niversity and the Big E ast Conference had reac hed an agreement that will allow the Panthers to join the A tlantic Coast Conference next summer. In an agreement similar to the one Syracuse reached to leave the Big East for the ACC, Pitt will mak e a total cash pa yment of $7.5 million to exit the Big East and join

Curtis Martin g ot emotional at his Pro Football Hall of Fame speech. MCT Campus

Aug. 4 — P air of f ormer Panthers inducted into NFL Hall of Fame Former Pitt football players Curtis Mar-

129 tin and Chris Doleman became the seventh and eighth former Panthers to be induct ed in the Pro F ootball Hall of F ame when they made their emotional enshrinement speeches. Martin, who played running back at Pitt from 1991 to 1994 before starring on the New England Patriots and the N ew York Jets in the NFL , brought tears to the ey es of many in attendance at the ceremon y in Canton, Ohio. In his speec h, he talk ed about how his mother rescued him from a life of drugs and violence by forcing him to play football. But Doleman, who dominated at de fensive end for the Panthers from 1 981 to

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NFL season, but nobod y is better suited to fill Manning’s shoes than the Stanford grad. Luck will ha ve to use both his voice and his talent to carry a team that could only manage one win last season. He is widel y considered the best quar terback to come out of the draft since Manning, so you won’t catch me betting against him. I see the Colts pulling off an 8-8 season, while Luck leaves some jaws on the floor with his accuracy and demeanor. RG3 in Washington, D.C.

Perhaps the biggest unknown of last April’s draft w as Robert Griffin III. He is the kind of quarterback that could either thrive or dive in the NFL — freak ishly talented, unorthodox, big, athletic and coming from a program that has never played a top -tier college team. Nobody will reall y know what he has until his number gets called on opening day. It’s tough to separate my fandom for the Redskins from logical reasoning, but this kid has impressed ev eryone who has seen him, and I w on’t be the first doubter. It might not be Cam N ewton-esque, but “RG3” will get it done in

his rookie season, and other teams in the NFC East are not going to enjoy having to chase him and Eagles quarterback Mike Vick around week after week. Tim Tebow in New York Whoops. Roethlisberger’s shoulder and atti tude There was a lot of talk this sum mer about whether Pitts burgh Steelers quarterback Ben R oethlisberger and new offensive coordinator T odd Haley could coexist, but the Steelers’ track re-

cord in the front office sa ys they know what they’re doing. Head coach Mike Tomlin has an iron fist, and I w ouldn’t expect him to let something like a coac h-player controversy spin out of control. The Steelers will be fine — the real question is ho w Roethlisberger’s body will hold up . His rotator cuff, according to him, is torn. His ankles and knees took a beating last year and he’s aging fast. But nobody plays better hurt, and Big Ben has proved he is a born winner. Until someone stops him, expect to see the Steelers make another postseason run. The 49ers on paper Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Brandon Jacobs, LaMichael James, Michael Crabtree, Ted Ginn, Mario Manningham, Randy Moss, V ernon Davis, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, Carlos R ogers, David Akers ... OK, I just w anted to see if this team actuall y looked as good on paper as it does in my head. And it does. The San F rancisco 49ers ha ve more talent than an yone else in the league, they did more in the offseason than anyone and they were one game away from the Super Bowl last year. This could be their year. Dream Team tries to fall asleep The hype around the Eagles last year was not entirel y their fault, but it w as entirely their fault that they onl y managed eight wins. V ick followed my rant on his contract being outrageous b y proving (once again) that he can ’t complete a full NFL season without suffer ing an injury. Still, the “Dream Team” hype lingers and the birds are doing everything they can to get where they know they can be: the Super Bowl. The signing of D eMeco Ryans was big for a line -backing group that leaks lik e a South Oakland faucet, but he, like Vick, still needs to prove he can stay healthy. Bucs as a Dark Horse Nobody is talking about T ampa Bay, and I’m not sure wh y. The Buccaneers signed wide recei ver Vincent Jackson, who may have been the big gest sure thing in free agency this year. They also picked up v eterans like Carl Nic ks and Dallas Clark and got rid of the cancer that is Albert Haynesworth. They also have Josh Freeman, a quarterback who had a 25 to 6 touc hdownto-interception ratio in his rookie season before plummeting for m yriad reasons, and they seem to ha ve addressed most of those reasons. Aside from the Saints, they pla y in a pretty weak division. And with New Orleans in shambles, this could be the y ear Tampa Bay sneaks into the pla yoffs and sur -

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MISSED 1984 and spent much of his pro career with the Minnesota Vikings, concluded his speech on a lighter note. “Anything you want in life, you can get through sacks,” Doleman said with a smile. Aug. 6 — Football camp opens And just two days later, the group of current Panthers got back to work at Pitt’s South Side practice facilities as new head football coach Paul Chryst opened his first summer training camp. “We have a lot of goals, but we have to FROM PAGE 130

NFL prises some people. New Orleans gets impaled Speaking of New Orleans, nothing like what happened to the Saints this offseason has ever happened in the NFL, and it might never happen again. The Saints lost their defensive coordinator, their coach was suspended for the entire season and four of their best players will have to serve suspensions in the wake of “bounty gate” — a scandal that revealed that Saints players and coaches had been putting bounties on opposing players in an attempt to injure them. But the Saints’ problems don’t stop there. They lost Carl Nicks to a team in their division, star quarterback Drew Brees had contract disputes this summer and the team was supposed to have a down year anyway. New Orleans could be in for a depressing season on the gridiron. And jumping way ahead ... Super Bowl XLVII prediction: Green Bay Packers 27, Denver Broncos 21.

work to improve,” Chryst said after the first day of practice. “You’re a better team if each individual gets better, and we’re trying to be the best we can be.” Pitt fans were excited to hear that star running back Ray Graham participated in most of the drills in the opening week of practice as he recovers from a knee injury that ended his 2011 season, but it still remains to be seen if he will be ready to suit up for the opener. The 2012 season will begin on Sept. 1 for the Panthers as they face Youngstown State at Heinz Field. The other five games Pitt will host throughout the fall include matchups against Virginia Tech, GardnerWebb, Louisville, Temple and Rutgers.

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OLYMPICS $10,000, respectively. Then again, the money Wade received for his part in winning both medals must seem lik e pocket change to multi -millionaires like himself. Regardless of the debate about whether Olympians should receive pay, there’s no denying that professional athletes gave us some of the most memorable moments of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The men’s tennis gold medal matc h pitted Switzerland’s Roger Federer against Great Britain’s Andy Murray in a rematch of an epic W imbledon final less

August 22, 2012 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com than one month prior to the Games. This time, Murray won with relati ve ease, sending a nation cra ving a legitimate tennis star into a frenzy. However, American Serena W illiams put that celebration to shame. After winning her women’s tennis gold medal match against Maria Sharapova of Russia in dominating fashion, the Compton, Calif., native performed a dance mo ve that originated in her hometo wn called the “crip walk” to the pleasure of the B ritish crowd. The victory completed the “ golden slam” for Williams, meaning she had won all four major tournaments (the A ustralian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon

and the U.S. Open) and an Ol ympic gold medal. Even if they are professionals, suc h emotion from both Murray and Williams reaffirms how important the Ol ympics are to these athletes. It ’s not just anoth er title to add to the collection — it is a unique distinction that can onl y be won every four years. In women’s soccer, 70,584 fans sa w team Great Britain face B razil at the fa mous Wembley Stadium in a group-stage contest, making it the largest cro wd to ever see a w omen’s soccer game in the United Kingdom and the third largest ever in history. In men’s soccer, under-23 squads

American tennis play er Serena Williams dominated the Olympic w omen’s singles tournament to win gold. MCT Campus

participated with the ex ception of three over-age players. Despite the relati ve youth of the under -23 players, all of them earn money for professional sides, and because of the high lev el of play, the tournament drew about 1.5 million spectators over the 30 matches before Mexico eventually won gold. Professional athletes competing in the Olympics began only recently, when the United States men’s basketball team validated the International Ol ympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to allow professionals at the Games in 1 992. Dubbed the “Dream Team” because of its aston ishing collection of talent (11 Hall of Famers), that team’s performance at the Games in Barcelona deserv es much of the credit for the subsequent gro wth of basketball internationally. And gro wing sports across the w orld has always been one of the overarching goals of the Olympics. Ice hockey at the W inter Games is a comparable sport, as since 1 998 it has become the domain of professionals. As a result, no event at the Winter Olympics is more anticipated than the men ’s ice hockey final. It’s been 20 y ears since profession als first competed at the w orld’s biggest sporting event, and if the IOC kno ws what a vital role these professionals have in making the games ev erlastingly relevant, it will do ev erything in its po wer to keep from losing the pros. If the Olympics were comprised of all amateurs, there would be way too many Olympians just happy to be there, and the lev el of competition and entertainment w ould drop significantly. After all, when w e tune in ev ery four years to w atch the v ery best athletes in the world compete, we want to know that they are indeed the v ery best athletes in the world. Even if it is on a tape delay.

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